Real estate market data often contain outliers in the observations. Since outliers have a large influence on least squares estimates, robust regression methods have been recommended for this situation. Compares the performance of least squares and least median of squares, a robust method, in the...

We analyse whether segregation exists in the rental housing market in Stockholm, Sweden, a market under persistent and all-embracing, yet “soft”, rent control. We use segregation measures for the uncontrolled cooperative housing segment as benchmarks for analysing whether rent control...