Synopses & Reviews
'Is my planned project commercially viable?' 'What are the current trends in housing?' 'What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies?'. These are just some of the questions real estate agents, private and social landlords and developers ask researchers to answer in an understandable way. An important step is to understand how these questions can be answered properly by the wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a valid research method, one needs a well-structured overview of the methods that are used in housing preference and housing choice research. However, there is no comprehensive introduction to this field. This book fills this gap and offers such an overview. Providing information, comparing the characteristics and describing the potential limitations of each method is the very core of this book. The selection of methods is based on our experiences in fundamental and applied research as well as in education. We have attempted to provide a much broader perspective than merely a methodological one. The emphasis lies on the descriptions of methods and analytical techniques related to the practical framework of goals in housing studies, in particular 'why do people move?', 'what do residents want?' and 'which choices do they make?'. Collectively, these chapters illustrate how thoughtful consideration of methods and techniques in research can improve and help researchers and other professionals to deliver products and services that are more in line with residents' needs.
Review
From the reviews:
"It brings together explanations and case studies of a wide variety of methods that have been used in both academic and applied research to measure and analyze housing preferences and choices. ... valuable reading for classes offering an introduction to housing research methods in disciplines such as geography, planning and real estate for academics and other professionals. ... the book may also serve as an eye-opener for those researchers and other professionals who have knowledge and experience drawn only from a particular approach." (H. J. P. Timmermans, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 27, 2012)
Synopsis
This book contains an overview of methods and techniques that can be used to predict and explain housing preferences and housing choices. Although research into these factors has always played a role in market-oriented housing, it is recently becoming even more important. For decades, there was a large quantitative shortage of dwellings on the housing market. What was built, for whom and in which quantity was decided by the suppliers. Risks were limited because there hardly was any surplus. However, now that the quantitative housing shortage has largely been overcome, a mismatch between the characteristics of the current housing supply and the demands that residents have with regard to housing, comes to light. One of the most important goals for predicting and explaining housing preferences is to improve the correspondence between the housing demand and supply and the residential environment. Insight into the market-demand must be the starting point for investments in newly-built dwellings and for stock management. This insight can be obtained from knowing residents' preferences, which can be measured in a number of ways. Each chapter of this book will discuss one of the methodological methods to obtain insight into residents' housing preferences and choices.
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This detailed book contains an overview of methods and techniques used to predict and explain housing preferences and housing choices. Although research into these factors has always played a role in market-oriented housing, it is now growing in importance.
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What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable?
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This comprehensive text offers an overview of methods to measure housing preferences and housing choice research. It discusses and compares numerous methods, detailing the limitations of each one, all within the context of meeting residents' needs.
Synopsis
What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable?
Table of Contents
1: Introduction: Sylvia Jansen, Henny Coolen, Roland Goetgeluk, 2: Traditional Housing Demand Research: Harry Boumeester, 3: The Decision Plan Net method: Roland Goetgeluk, 4: