<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Predicting demand on the residential real estate market and the behavior of the purchasers requires a wide knowledge of both the economic mechanisms and psychology of decision-making. Decisions on the real estate market are often made by people without professional skills, and using simplified strategies. However, the decision-making process, on top of its heuristic nature, is dynamic and changing. As a result, a discrepancy in the preferred characteristics of planned and actually bought real estate can be observed. Such a discrepancy can be explained with the occurrence of the compensation process. The aim of this article was to recognize and describe the compensation process on the example of the suburban residential real estate market. The aim was achieved by analyzing the preferences of potential buyers in terms of particular characteristics of the location of suburban plots destined for single-family housing (respondents divided into age groups: 25 and 26-40), analyzing the real settlement trend in the suburban zone (the result of actual transactions) and comparing the results, including compensation.</p></abstract>

Predicting demand on the residential real estate market and the behavior of the purchasers requires a wide knowledge of both the economic mechanisms and psychology of decision-making. Decisions on the real estate market are often made by people without professional skills, and using simplified strategies. However, the decision-making process, on top of its heuristic nature, is dynamic and changing. As a result, a discrepancy in the preferred characteristics of planned and actually bought real estate can be observed. Such a discrepancy can be explained with the occurrence of the compensation process. The aim of this article was to recognize and describe the compensation process on the example of the suburban residential real estate market. The aim was achieved by analyzing the preferences of potential buyers in terms of particular characteristics of the location of suburban plots destined for single-family housing (respondents divided into age groups: 25 and 26-40), analyzing the real settlement trend in the suburban zone (the result of actual transactions) and comparing the results, including compensation.

Compensation in Residential Real Estate Purchasers’ Decisions

Department of Economic and Regional Policy, University of Warmia and Mazury

Real Estate Management and Valuation

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Predicting demand on the residential real estate market and the behavior of the purchasers requires a wide knowledge of both the economic mechanisms and...

Compensation in Residential Real Estate Purchasers’ Decisions

Online veröffentlicht: 30. Dez. 2016

Seitenbereich: 70 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/remav-2016-0031

Schlüsselwörter
decision, compensation, real estate market

© 2016 Alina Źróbek-Różańska, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Compensation in Residential Real Estate Purchasers’ Decisions

Online veröffentlicht: 30. Dez. 2016

Seitenbereich: 70 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/remav-2016-0031

Schlüsselwörterdecision, compensation, real estate market

© 2016 Alina Źróbek-Różańska, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
decision, compensation, real estate market