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Measuring the Value of Housing Quality

Authors: John F. Kain; John M. Quigley;

Measuring the Value of Housing Quality

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Abstract Based on an extensive sample of individual dwelling units, this article estimates the market value, or the implicit prices, of specific aspects of the bundles of residential services consumed by urban households. Quantitative estimates were obtained by regressing market price of owner- and renter-occupied dwelling units on measures of the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of the housing bundle. The measures of residential quality associated with individual dwelling units were obtained by using factor analysis to aggregate some 39 indexes of the quality of narrowly defined aspects of the dwelling units, structures, parcels, and micro-neighborhoods. The analysis indicates that the quality of the bundle of residential services has about as much effect on the price of housing as such objective aspects as the number of rooms, number of bathrooms, and lot size. The analysis also confirms the influence of neighborhood schools on the value of residential properties and indicates that rental propert...

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