Real Estate, Volume 2, Issue 4

Seasonality has traditionally shaped the U.S. housing market, with activity peaking in spring-summer and declining in autumn-winter. However, recent disruptions, particularly those following COVID-19, raise questions about shifts in these patterns. T...

Intermediaries are central to complex transactions. In housing markets, real estate brokers coordinate information flows, reduce search costs, and guide lay buyers and sellers through legal and financial steps. Despite this importance, scholarship on...

The housing deficit in developing countries is a common challenge, primarily impacting low-income populations. This paper investigated interinstitutional workflows using Building Information Modelling (BIM) as a social technology to improve the effic...

Housing price indices (HPIs) are employed to assess the impact of the business cycle, monetary policy, housing policies, and local market dynamics. However, comparative empirical analysis of different HPI methodologies has not been conducted to measu...

Location effects play a crucial role in the real estate market, encompassing aspects of accessibility and neighborhood quality. While traditional measures exist for accessibility, evaluating neighborhood quality can be a complex task. Understanding t...

The paper contributes to the debate on the holistic sustainability assessment of real estate projects, integrating economic, financial, environmental, and social aspects. A methodological study is presented to support decision-making processes involv...

Using panel data on 99 Italian provinces in the period between 2005 and 2020, the research investigates the effects of fundamental economic factors on the home sales at the provincial level, in order to build a forecasting model using a non-linear ar...