Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets

Prentice-Hall, 1996

Denise DiPasquale and William C. Wheaton

Table Of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION TO REAL ESTATE MARKETS.

 

1. The Property and Capital Markets.

2. The Operation of Property Markets: A Micro and Macro Approach.

 

II. MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROPERTY MARKETS.

 

Residential Real Estate.

3. The Urban Land Market: Rents and Prices.

4. The Urban Housing Market: Structural Attributes and Density.

Non-Residential Property Markets.

5. Firm Site Selection, Employment Decentralization and Multi-Centered Cities.

6. Retail Location and Market Competition.

 

III. MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROPERTY MARKETS.

 

7. Economic Growth and Metropolitan Real Estate Markets.

Residential Real Estate.

8. The Market for Housing Units: Households, Prices, and Financing.

9. The Market for Housing Services: Moving, Sales and Vacancy.

10. The Cyclical Behavior of Metropolitan Housing Markets.

Nonresidential Property Markets.

11. The Operation of Non-Residential Property Markets.

12. Econometric Analysis of Metropolitan Office and Industrial Markets.

 

IV. THE IMPACT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ON REAL ESTATE MARKETS.

 

13. Local Governments, Property Taxes and Real Estate Markets.

14. Public Goods, Externalities and Development Regulation.

 

INDEX.