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Hedonic-Based Price Indexes for the Housing Market in Italian Cities: Theory and Estimation

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  • Alessandra Michelangeli
  • Alberto Zanardi

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We adopt the hedonic approach to develop a price index for the housing market in Italy. The hedonic approach allows to separate the price variations due to qualitative changes of housing attributes from pure price changes, that is the intrinsic real estate price variations. As a result, it produces an index much more robust and accurate than those based on mean prices, which are commonly developed by real estate professionals. Using data from the "Osservatorio del mercato immobiliare" we develop transaction-based indexes for the housing markets of the three largest Italian cities (Rome, Milan and Naples) over the period 2004-2006. Our results confirm at large the general trend of housing prices shown by the simpler indexes currently available in Italy: dwellings in all three cities display prices increasing at a rate largely higher than the general price index with Rome appreciating on average more than Naples and, to a larger extent, Milan. Nevertheless the comparison among indexes points out differences sometimes remarkable in temporal patterns of housing price evolutions.

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  • Alessandra Michelangeli & Alberto Zanardi, 2009. "Hedonic-Based Price Indexes for the Housing Market in Italian Cities: Theory and Estimation," Politica economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 2, pages 109-146.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:je8794:doi:10.1429/30314:y:2009:i:2:p:109-146
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    1. Marco Brambilla & Alessandra Michelangeli & Eugenio Peluso, 2013. "Equity in the City: On Measuring Urban (Ine)quality of Life," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(16), pages 3205-3224, December.
    2. Riccardo Borgoni & Giacomo Degli Antoni & Marco Faillo & Alessandra Michelangeli, 2017. "Preferences for living in homogenous communities and cooperation: a new methodological approach combining the hedonic price model and a field experiment," Econometica Working Papers wp62, Econometica.

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