 The impact of leasehold status on apartment priceCarl Caesar, Herman Donner and Fredrik Kopsch Journal of Housing Economics, 2019, vol. 46, issue C Abstract: Based upon cooperative apartments sold in Stockholm, Sweden during the period of 2012 to mid-2014, we find that leasehold status (meaning that the cooperative does not own the land that the apartment building occupies) has a small but statistically significant impact on price of −2.3% when controlling for location and apartment characteristics in a hedonic model. At the time of renegotiation (i.e. a lease duration of 0), leasehold depreciates price with 4.2%. We also apply propensity score matching, which results in slightly larger negative impact on the price being estimated. As current lease payments are covered by monthly fees that are to be paid to the cooperative, a negative effect on price should mostly be attributed to an increased uncertainty of future levels of monthly fees. We therefore extend the existing literature by examining the impact on price by the remaining leasehold term whilst still controlling for monthly fees. Consistent with our hypothesis, apartment prices are found to increase with 0.22% for each additional year that remains until renegotiation of the lease contract. Date: 2019 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jhouse:v:46:y:2019:i:c:s1051137718300639 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2019.04.001 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Housing Economics is currently edited by H. O. Pollakowski More articles in Journal of Housing Economics from Elsevier |
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