Craig Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1249-9473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Structural under-reporting of informed consent, data handling and sharing, ethical approval, and application of Open Science principles as proxies for study quality conduct in Covid-19 research
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic required science to provide answers rapidly to combat the outbreak. Hence, the reproducibility and quality of conducting research may have been threatened, particularly regarding privacy and data protection, in varying ways around the globe. The objective was to investigate aspects of reporting informed consent and data handling as proxies for study quality conduct. METHODS: A systematic scoping review was perfor…
Effectiveness of the new planning system in transforming housing markets in Turkey
This paper explores recent effectiveness of planning interventions in Turkey in transforming market outcomes. It does this through an empirical investigation of the use (or lack thereof) of four types of planning intervention: market shaping, market regulatory, market stimulating and capacity building instruments. The analysis, which is based on in-depth interviews with a range of key market and state actors, demonstrates the limitations of a hie…
The use of public land for house building in England
Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…
Drivers of spatial change in urban housing submarkets
Spatial urban housing submarkets are now widely used constructs. Recent housing market modelling strategies have emphasised the need for flexibility in modelling approaches in order to best accommodate submarkets which account for spatial variations in hedonic prices. But this raises important unanswered questions concerning the stability of submarket structures over time, and the role of housing market dynamics in breaking down or shifting subma…
Assessing the spatial impact of policy interventions on real-estate values
This paper sets out to make a contribution to the extensive literature that seeks to develop methods that allow rigorous and robust analysis of the spatial and temporal impacts of public policy interventions on property (real-estate) values. It argues that the hybrid repeat-sales/hedonic method developed in realestate studies over the last 30 years has considerable, but as yet under-developed, potential as a policy analysis tool. Using data from …
Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World? Implications for Planning Practice and Theory
Planning’s normative aspirations are open to criticism for their idealism and impracticality in the face of economic forces. The question underlying this article therefore is how far space—conceptual and practical—exists for better planning? The argument uses empirical evidence drawn from an unremarkable planning case not as a source of explanation but to probe how events (and hence planning) might have been different and therefore could be diffe…
The Predictive Performance of Multilevel Models of Housing Sub-markets
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 effectiveness of multilevel models as a technique for modelling sub-markets. The paper uses data on housing transactions from Perth, Western Australia, to de…
Housebuilder Networks and Residential Land Markets
The commercial prospects of speculative housebuilders depend crucially on successful land acquisitions. This paper presents new evidence revealing the importance housebuilders attach to networks with other important actors in securing future land supplies. Since networks depend on trust, reputation and voluntary collaboration, they indicate the importance of social relations within the industry. The paper argues that UK speculative housebuilders …
The Behavioural Turn in Housing Economics
This paper starts with an assumption that mainstream economics has limitations and that a behaviourally rich inter-disciplinary research programme can strengthen the field of housing studies by addressing some of these weaknesses. We note, however, that the heterogeneity of behavioural studies and, in particular, the bifurcation between ’old’ and ’new’ behavioural economics presents significant conceptual and operational challenges. We note, for …
Planning Policy and Retail Property Investment in the UK
Empirical evidence suggests that planning policies significantly impact on investment property market performance in the UK. It is less clear, however, how information about the planning policy environment feeds into investment decision-making. This paper seeks to explore this issue. It reports on interviews with the property investment community and focuses on the decision to invest in the retail sector. The paper uses a six-stage model of the i…
Microeconomic Perspectives on the Structure and Operation of Local Housing Markets
This paper provides a highly selective review of the voluminous literature on the economic analysis of local housing markets. It is suggested that, although it often appears that mainstream economics is more concerned with improving technical elements of the modelling approach than enhancing our understanding of how markets function, there is in fact a rich literature that is largely concerned with explaining market processes and dynamics and wit…
Supply-Side Policies and Retail Property Market Performance
In this paper we are concerned with the relationship between the government's supply-side policies, including development control regimes, and the performance of the retail property market. It is argued that the regulatory environment impacts on the prices paid by both users and owners of retail space. This assertion is tested empirically. A range of measures of the complex and, at times, conflicting supply-side policies are incorporated into mod…
Hip Hop Matters
Planning, Public Policy & Property Markets
Planning Policy and Retail Property Markets
There is considerable case-study-based evidence that changes in the public policy environment have profoundly altered the structure and operation of retail property markets in England. Despite this, however, few studies of property market performance consider the influence of retail planning policies. This paper seeks to fill the gap. The empirical part of the paper uses data derived from a survey of local planning authorities to construct a rang…
Intra‐Urban migration and housing submarkets
In the 1950s and 1960s a group of housing economists at Columbia University developed a framework for the analyses of urban housing markets which was based around the concept of housing submarkets and household migration. There is now widespread agreement amongst housing economists that submarkets should be adopted as a working hypothesis but the concept has been reformulated in terms of intra‐urban relative house price differentials. The accepte…
Structural Change in a Local Urban Housing Market
This paper addresses the structural change in a local urban housing market within a submarket framework. There is a voluminous literature examining the economic structure and operation of urban housing submarkets, with much of the associated empirical work based on static cross-sectional studies. Analysis of the temporal dynamics of local markets has tended to be perfunctory. As such, our understanding of structural change over time remains under…
Towards a System of Local House Price Indices
This paper argues that understanding of the performance and price structure of urban housing markets in the UK would be enhanced by limited investment in comprehensive systems for collecting data on housing transactions. These data would allow the construction of reliable and accurate indices at different levels of spatial aggregation. The empirical part of the paper uses data from the Western Australian Valuer General's Office to illustrate the …
Testing for the Existence of Office Sub-markets
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 decentralisation, however, some authors have noted that the influence of agglomeration economies on the locational dynamics of commercial property markets may be declinin…
Framing protest
This paper examines network television news (ABC, CBS, and NBC) coverage of the “Million Man March,”; a widely publicized and well‐attended demonstration that took place in Washington, DC on October 16, 1995. The primary aim of the paper is to analyze the dominant framing practices‐problem definition, rhetorical devices, use of sources, and images‐employed by journalists to make sense of this particular expression of political protest. Additional…
The Definition and Identification of Housing Submarkets
Although it is widely accepted that urban housing markets are too complex to be described by unitary market, equilibrium models, the role of submarkets has not been embraced in applied research. In this paper it is argued that this is unsurprising and can be traced to the failure to establish a theoretical or empirical basis for submarket modeling. I note that, throughout the housing economics literature, the term 'submarket' is subject to a rang…
Understanding Property Market Dynamics
The volatility of commercial property markets in the United Kingdom has stimulated the development of explanatory models of 'price' determination. These models have tended to focus on the demand-side as the driver of change. A corollary of this is that, despite the fact that construction lags are known to exacerbate cyclical fluctuations, the supply-side adjustment mechanism has been subject to relatively little research effort. In this paper the…
Longitudinal Monitoring of Housing Renewal in the Urban Core
This paper is broadly concerned with monitoring the development of markets for new and converted housing in city centres over the longer term, and with assessing the implications for housing renewal strategies. These themes are addressed through a case study of housing market trends in Glasgow's Merchant City, which is generally recognised as an important example of housing-led city-centre regeneration. The analysis places the Merchant City exper…
The Position and Role of Former Public Sector Homes in the Owner-occupied Sector
By 1995, around one-third of Scotland's public sector housing stock (as at 1980) had been sold to sitting tenants under the 'Right to Buy'. An estimated 67 000 of these 300 000 dwellings have subsequently been resold on the open market. At the peak of the resale activity, in 1992, the volume of resales reached just under 14 000 transactions, accounting for 14 per cent of all 'second-hand' market activity in that year. There appears to be a substa…
The Definition and Identification of Housing Submarkets
Although it is widely accepted that urban housing markets are too complex to be described by unitary market, equilibrium models, the role of submarkets has not been embraced in applied research. In this paper it is argued that this is unsurprising and can be traced to the failure to establish a theoretical or empirical basis for submarket modeling. I note that, throughout the housing economics literature, the term 'submarket' is subject to a rang…
Framing protest
This paper examines network television news (ABC, CBS, and NBC) coverage of the “Million Man March,”; a widely publicized and well‐attended demonstration that took place in Washington, DC on October 16, 1995. The primary aim of the paper is to analyze the dominant framing practices‐problem definition, rhetorical devices, use of sources, and images‐employed by journalists to make sense of this particular expression of political protest. Additional…
Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World? Implications for Planning Practice and Theory
Planning’s normative aspirations are open to criticism for their idealism and impracticality in the face of economic forces. The question underlying this article therefore is how far space—conceptual and practical—exists for better planning? The argument uses empirical evidence drawn from an unremarkable planning case not as a source of explanation but to probe how events (and hence planning) might have been different and therefore could be diffe…
Intra‐Urban migration and housing submarkets
In the 1950s and 1960s a group of housing economists at Columbia University developed a framework for the analyses of urban housing markets which was based around the concept of housing submarkets and household migration. There is now widespread agreement amongst housing economists that submarkets should be adopted as a working hypothesis but the concept has been reformulated in terms of intra‐urban relative house price differentials. The accepte…
"Screening the Los Angeles "Riots
On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation f…
Structural Change in a Local Urban Housing Market
This paper addresses the structural change in a local urban housing market within a submarket framework. There is a voluminous literature examining the economic structure and operation of urban housing submarkets, with much of the associated empirical work based on static cross-sectional studies. Analysis of the temporal dynamics of local markets has tended to be perfunctory. As such, our understanding of structural change over time remains under…
The Predictive Performance of Multilevel Models of Housing Sub-markets
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 effectiveness of multilevel models as a technique for modelling sub-markets. The paper uses data on housing transactions from Perth, Western Australia, to de…
Microeconomic Perspectives on the Structure and Operation of Local Housing Markets
This paper provides a highly selective review of the voluminous literature on the economic analysis of local housing markets. It is suggested that, although it often appears that mainstream economics is more concerned with improving technical elements of the modelling approach than enhancing our understanding of how markets function, there is in fact a rich literature that is largely concerned with explaining market processes and dynamics and wit…
Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Markets
The paper assesses the criteria for the success of British urban policy initiatives and concludes that they are too short term. In the search for a long-term measure of success, the paper examines the process of development of new property markets. The concept of sustainable markets is proposed as the ultimate goal of urban policy. To explore the creation of sustainable markets, the paper charts the development of a city-centre housing market in …
Drivers of spatial change in urban housing submarkets
Spatial urban housing submarkets are now widely used constructs. Recent housing market modelling strategies have emphasised the need for flexibility in modelling approaches in order to best accommodate submarkets which account for spatial variations in hedonic prices. But this raises important unanswered questions concerning the stability of submarket structures over time, and the role of housing market dynamics in breaking down or shifting subma…
The Behavioural Turn in Housing Economics
This paper starts with an assumption that mainstream economics has limitations and that a behaviourally rich inter-disciplinary research programme can strengthen the field of housing studies by addressing some of these weaknesses. We note, however, that the heterogeneity of behavioural studies and, in particular, the bifurcation between ’old’ and ’new’ behavioural economics presents significant conceptual and operational challenges. We note, for …
Towards a System of Local House Price Indices
This paper argues that understanding of the performance and price structure of urban housing markets in the UK would be enhanced by limited investment in comprehensive systems for collecting data on housing transactions. These data would allow the construction of reliable and accurate indices at different levels of spatial aggregation. The empirical part of the paper uses data from the Western Australian Valuer General's Office to illustrate the …
Housebuilder Networks and Residential Land Markets
The commercial prospects of speculative housebuilders depend crucially on successful land acquisitions. This paper presents new evidence revealing the importance housebuilders attach to networks with other important actors in securing future land supplies. Since networks depend on trust, reputation and voluntary collaboration, they indicate the importance of social relations within the industry. The paper argues that UK speculative housebuilders …
Planning Policy and Retail Property Markets
There is considerable case-study-based evidence that changes in the public policy environment have profoundly altered the structure and operation of retail property markets in England. Despite this, however, few studies of property market performance consider the influence of retail planning policies. This paper seeks to fill the gap. The empirical part of the paper uses data derived from a survey of local planning authorities to construct a rang…
Testing for the Existence of Office Sub-markets
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 decentralisation, however, some authors have noted that the influence of agglomeration economies on the locational dynamics of commercial property markets may be declinin…
Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…
Understanding Property Market Dynamics
The volatility of commercial property markets in the United Kingdom has stimulated the development of explanatory models of 'price' determination. These models have tended to focus on the demand-side as the driver of change. A corollary of this is that, despite the fact that construction lags are known to exacerbate cyclical fluctuations, the supply-side adjustment mechanism has been subject to relatively little research effort. In this paper the…
Assessing the spatial impact of policy interventions on real-estate values
This paper sets out to make a contribution to the extensive literature that seeks to develop methods that allow rigorous and robust analysis of the spatial and temporal impacts of public policy interventions on property (real-estate) values. It argues that the hybrid repeat-sales/hedonic method developed in realestate studies over the last 30 years has considerable, but as yet under-developed, potential as a policy analysis tool. Using data from …
Supply-Side Policies and Retail Property Market Performance
In this paper we are concerned with the relationship between the government's supply-side policies, including development control regimes, and the performance of the retail property market. It is argued that the regulatory environment impacts on the prices paid by both users and owners of retail space. This assertion is tested empirically. A range of measures of the complex and, at times, conflicting supply-side policies are incorporated into mod…
Longitudinal Monitoring of Housing Renewal in the Urban Core
This paper is broadly concerned with monitoring the development of markets for new and converted housing in city centres over the longer term, and with assessing the implications for housing renewal strategies. These themes are addressed through a case study of housing market trends in Glasgow's Merchant City, which is generally recognised as an important example of housing-led city-centre regeneration. The analysis places the Merchant City exper…
The use of public land for house building in England
The Position and Role of Former Public Sector Homes in the Owner-occupied Sector
By 1995, around one-third of Scotland's public sector housing stock (as at 1980) had been sold to sitting tenants under the 'Right to Buy'. An estimated 67 000 of these 300 000 dwellings have subsequently been resold on the open market. At the peak of the resale activity, in 1992, the volume of resales reached just under 14 000 transactions, accounting for 14 per cent of all 'second-hand' market activity in that year. There appears to be a substa…
Examining Spatial Patterns in the Pace of Housing Commodification
The varying spatial and socio‐economic impact of large‐scale privatisation of the British housing system since 1980 is well documented. However, the effects of this policy extend beyond the initial privatisation of ownership. By 1995 over a fifth of the 300,000 public sector homes sold to sitting tenants in Scotland had been resold on the open market. In this paper, we show that the pace of commodification varies significantly between areas, and …
Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Markets
The paper assesses the criteria for the success of British urban policy initiatives and concludes that they are too short term. In the search for a long-term measure of success, the paper examines the process of development of new property markets. The concept of sustainable markets is proposed as the ultimate goal of urban policy. To explore the creation of sustainable markets, the paper charts the development of a city-centre housing market in …
The Position and Role of Former Public Sector Homes in the Owner-occupied Sector
By 1995, around one-third of Scotland's public sector housing stock (as at 1980) had been sold to sitting tenants under the 'Right to Buy'. An estimated 67 000 of these 300 000 dwellings have subsequently been resold on the open market. At the peak of the resale activity, in 1992, the volume of resales reached just under 14 000 transactions, accounting for 14 per cent of all 'second-hand' market activity in that year. There appears to be a substa…
Examining Spatial Patterns in the Pace of Housing Commodification
The varying spatial and socio‐economic impact of large‐scale privatisation of the British housing system since 1980 is well documented. However, the effects of this policy extend beyond the initial privatisation of ownership. By 1995 over a fifth of the 300,000 public sector homes sold to sitting tenants in Scotland had been resold on the open market. In this paper, we show that the pace of commodification varies significantly between areas, and …
"Screening the Los Angeles "Riots
On April 29 1992, the 'worst riots of the century' (Los Angeles Times) erupted. Television news-workers tried frantically to keep up with what was happening on the streets while, around the city, nation and globe, viewers watched intently as leaders, participants and fires flashed across their television screens. Screening the Los Angeles 'Riots' zeros in on the first night of these events, exploring in detail the meanings one news organisation f…
Longitudinal Monitoring of Housing Renewal in the Urban Core
This paper is broadly concerned with monitoring the development of markets for new and converted housing in city centres over the longer term, and with assessing the implications for housing renewal strategies. These themes are addressed through a case study of housing market trends in Glasgow's Merchant City, which is generally recognised as an important example of housing-led city-centre regeneration. The analysis places the Merchant City exper…
Understanding Property Market Dynamics
The volatility of commercial property markets in the United Kingdom has stimulated the development of explanatory models of 'price' determination. These models have tended to focus on the demand-side as the driver of change. A corollary of this is that, despite the fact that construction lags are known to exacerbate cyclical fluctuations, the supply-side adjustment mechanism has been subject to relatively little research effort. In this paper the…
Framing protest
This paper examines network television news (ABC, CBS, and NBC) coverage of the “Million Man March,”; a widely publicized and well‐attended demonstration that took place in Washington, DC on October 16, 1995. The primary aim of the paper is to analyze the dominant framing practices‐problem definition, rhetorical devices, use of sources, and images‐employed by journalists to make sense of this particular expression of political protest. Additional…
The Definition and Identification of Housing Submarkets
Although it is widely accepted that urban housing markets are too complex to be described by unitary market, equilibrium models, the role of submarkets has not been embraced in applied research. In this paper it is argued that this is unsurprising and can be traced to the failure to establish a theoretical or empirical basis for submarket modeling. I note that, throughout the housing economics literature, the term 'submarket' is subject to a rang…
Towards a System of Local House Price Indices
This paper argues that understanding of the performance and price structure of urban housing markets in the UK would be enhanced by limited investment in comprehensive systems for collecting data on housing transactions. These data would allow the construction of reliable and accurate indices at different levels of spatial aggregation. The empirical part of the paper uses data from the Western Australian Valuer General's Office to illustrate the …
Testing for the Existence of Office Sub-markets
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 decentralisation, however, some authors have noted that the influence of agglomeration economies on the locational dynamics of commercial property markets may be declinin…
Structural Change in a Local Urban Housing Market
This paper addresses the structural change in a local urban housing market within a submarket framework. There is a voluminous literature examining the economic structure and operation of urban housing submarkets, with much of the associated empirical work based on static cross-sectional studies. Analysis of the temporal dynamics of local markets has tended to be perfunctory. As such, our understanding of structural change over time remains under…
Intra‐Urban migration and housing submarkets
In the 1950s and 1960s a group of housing economists at Columbia University developed a framework for the analyses of urban housing markets which was based around the concept of housing submarkets and household migration. There is now widespread agreement amongst housing economists that submarkets should be adopted as a working hypothesis but the concept has been reformulated in terms of intra‐urban relative house price differentials. The accepte…
Planning, Public Policy & Property Markets
Planning Policy and Retail Property Markets
There is considerable case-study-based evidence that changes in the public policy environment have profoundly altered the structure and operation of retail property markets in England. Despite this, however, few studies of property market performance consider the influence of retail planning policies. This paper seeks to fill the gap. The empirical part of the paper uses data derived from a survey of local planning authorities to construct a rang…
Hip Hop Matters
Supply-Side Policies and Retail Property Market Performance
In this paper we are concerned with the relationship between the government's supply-side policies, including development control regimes, and the performance of the retail property market. It is argued that the regulatory environment impacts on the prices paid by both users and owners of retail space. This assertion is tested empirically. A range of measures of the complex and, at times, conflicting supply-side policies are incorporated into mod…
Microeconomic Perspectives on the Structure and Operation of Local Housing Markets
This paper provides a highly selective review of the voluminous literature on the economic analysis of local housing markets. It is suggested that, although it often appears that mainstream economics is more concerned with improving technical elements of the modelling approach than enhancing our understanding of how markets function, there is in fact a rich literature that is largely concerned with explaining market processes and dynamics and wit…
The Behavioural Turn in Housing Economics
This paper starts with an assumption that mainstream economics has limitations and that a behaviourally rich inter-disciplinary research programme can strengthen the field of housing studies by addressing some of these weaknesses. We note, however, that the heterogeneity of behavioural studies and, in particular, the bifurcation between ’old’ and ’new’ behavioural economics presents significant conceptual and operational challenges. We note, for …
Planning Policy and Retail Property Investment in the UK
Empirical evidence suggests that planning policies significantly impact on investment property market performance in the UK. It is less clear, however, how information about the planning policy environment feeds into investment decision-making. This paper seeks to explore this issue. It reports on interviews with the property investment community and focuses on the decision to invest in the retail sector. The paper uses a six-stage model of the i…
Housebuilder Networks and Residential Land Markets
The commercial prospects of speculative housebuilders depend crucially on successful land acquisitions. This paper presents new evidence revealing the importance housebuilders attach to networks with other important actors in securing future land supplies. Since networks depend on trust, reputation and voluntary collaboration, they indicate the importance of social relations within the industry. The paper argues that UK speculative housebuilders …
Is There Space for Better Planning in a Neoliberal World? Implications for Planning Practice and Theory
Planning’s normative aspirations are open to criticism for their idealism and impracticality in the face of economic forces. The question underlying this article therefore is how far space—conceptual and practical—exists for better planning? The argument uses empirical evidence drawn from an unremarkable planning case not as a source of explanation but to probe how events (and hence planning) might have been different and therefore could be diffe…
The Predictive Performance of Multilevel Models of Housing Sub-markets
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 effectiveness of multilevel models as a technique for modelling sub-markets. The paper uses data on housing transactions from Perth, Western Australia, to de…
Assessing the spatial impact of policy interventions on real-estate values
This paper sets out to make a contribution to the extensive literature that seeks to develop methods that allow rigorous and robust analysis of the spatial and temporal impacts of public policy interventions on property (real-estate) values. It argues that the hybrid repeat-sales/hedonic method developed in realestate studies over the last 30 years has considerable, but as yet under-developed, potential as a policy analysis tool. Using data from …
Technological change and estate agents’ practices in the changing nature of housing transactions
The construction of housing markets, mediated by estate agents, is changing. The ‘information age’ has witnessed widespread changes to personal intermediation across many business sectors (e.g. holiday sales and insurance brokerage), yet estate agents continue to be extensively involved. This paper asks whether the intermediation process has changed and why this is the case. Through a cultural economy investigation of the everyday practices of es…
Drivers of spatial change in urban housing submarkets
Spatial urban housing submarkets are now widely used constructs. Recent housing market modelling strategies have emphasised the need for flexibility in modelling approaches in order to best accommodate submarkets which account for spatial variations in hedonic prices. But this raises important unanswered questions concerning the stability of submarket structures over time, and the role of housing market dynamics in breaking down or shifting subma…
Economics (23 works) · Housing Market and Economics (22 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (20 works) · Business (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Finance (8 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works)