The Microstructures of Housing Markets

ISBN-13: 9781138981034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 210 str.

Susan J. Smith;Moira Munro;?Abar

Opis

This multidisciplinary collection casts exciting new light on how housing markets work. It develops innovative ideas about the microstructures of markets in order to explore the social, cultural and psychological, as well as economic, drivers of this most critical element of national and local economies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Susan J. Smith and Moira Munro  2. Microeconomic Perspectives on the Structure and Operation of Local Housing Markets  Craig Watkins  3. Understanding Neighbourhood Housing Markets: Regional Context, Disequilibrium, Sub-markets and Supply  Glen Bramley Chris Leishman and David Watkins  4. ‘Doing Deals on the House’ in a ‘Post-welfare’ Society: Evidence of Micro-Market Practices from Britain and the USA  Helen Jarvis  5. Between Investment, Asset and Use Consumption: The Meanings of Homeownership in Japan  Richard Ronald  6. Knowing the Market? Understanding and Performing York’s Housing  Alison Wallace 7. Influences and Emotions: Exploring Family Decision-making Processes when Buying a House  Deborah Levy, Laurence Murphy and Christina K.C. Lee  8. The Effect of Consumers’ Expectations in a Booming Housing Market: Space-time Patterns in the Netherlands, 1999–2000  Jan Rouwendal and Simonetta Longhi  9. Rhetoric in the Language of Real Estate Marketing  Gwilym Pryce and Sarah Oates  10. Calculated Affection? Charting the Complex Economy of Home Purchase  Moira Munro and Susan J. Smith

O autorze

Susan J. Smith is Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK.

Moira Munro is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, UK.