Environmental performance certificates constitute one of the main tools to encourage tenants, landlords and any agent in the residential sector to account for energy consumption in property transactions. This paper builds upon prior research and expands the current state of literature by...

This paper analyzes the tax effects of the German real estate transfer tax (RETT). While the vast majority of single-family houses in Germany are owner-occupied, apartments are usually held by private and incorporated investors. For this reason, we conducted a regression analysis to determine...

We combine the real estate model of Potepan (1996) with the spatial equilibrium approach of Roback (1982) to prove the interdependency of housing prices, rental prices, building land prices and income via one simultaneous equilibrium analysis. Using unique crosssectional data on the majority of...