Modeling Housing Demand for New Residential Buildings in Urban Areas

Reza Najarzadeh () and Amene Shahidi ()
Additional contact information
Reza Najarzadeh: Department of Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran.
Amene Shahidi: Department of Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran.

Iranian Economic Review (IER), 2015, vol. 19, issue 2, 165-176

Abstract: This study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of Iran during 1976-2010. The demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the Bounds testing of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Co-integration procedure. The test confirmed a long-run relationship among the variables, so the coefficients of the short-term and long-term demand for new residential buildings were estimated. The results show that the average income of urban households has the biggest impact on the long-term demand of new residential buildings and its sign is positive. In the short-term, the biggest impact on the demand for new residential buildings is the average cost of constructing a residential building, with a negative impact on the demand.

Keywords: ARDL Co-integration techniques; Bounds Test; Demand for New Residential Buildings. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
ftp://80.66.179.253/eut/journl/20152-4.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eut:journl:v:19:y:2015:i:2:p:165

Access Statistics for this article

Iranian Economic Review (IER) is currently edited by Dr.Hossien Abbasinejad

More articles in Iranian Economic Review (IER) from Faculty of Economics,University of Tehran.Tehran,Iran Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by [z.rahimalipour] ().