Council tax was introduced in Britain in 1993 and represents a unique international property tax. There is a growing belief that it is time to reform the number and structure of council tax bands, but such views have a minimal empirical base. This paper sets out to assess the impact of changing...

Arguments about sustainable urban form have generally been in normative terms without recourse to its practicality. The paper shows that the essential elements of urban form are outcomes of real estate markets. The focus of the research is to examine the economic sustainability constraints to...

Much of the housing sub-market literature has focused on establishing methods that allow the partitioning of data into distinct market segments. This paper seeks to move the focus on to the question of how best to model sub-markets once they have been identified. It focuses on evaluating the...

This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression...

Most conceptual and applied economic models of the structure of urban office markets have been developed from traditional location theory. In their basic form, these models tend to posit a trade-off between accessibility and space. In the light of changing business practices and...

Until relatively recently, housing transaction data were generally unavailable at the unit level in the UK. Partly as a result of this, the development of local indicators of housing demand has generally not kept pace with availability of indices at national and regional levels. The housing...

There have been few documented attempts to construct and estimate econometric models of local housing market dynamics and linkages. Previous housing market analyses have been undertaken primarily at the national and regional levels of aggregation. This paper reports the results of the estimation...

"This paper examines the Land Leverage Hypothesis through a detailed study of data from the city of Perth, Western Australia. Through the land leverage framework, this paper examines property assets as a form of composite asset where major components of value are commonly classified as...

This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression...