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<p>The article attempts to explain market levels of housing prices by supplementing the set of typical objective explanatory variables with variables of behavioral background. The proposed explanatory variables reflect the anchoring effect of prices, understood as the acceptance by market participants of such price levels that are justified not only in terms of socio-economic factors, but also in levels entrenched in their minds. The purpose of the study is to show that the anchoring effect identified through behavioral economics can be generalized and applied to the market behavior of many market participants, and thus explain the weak correspondence between listed housing prices and their objective factors. The study covers 17 local real estate markets in Poland and employs econometric models built under slightly modified procedures of backward stepwise regression.</p>
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The article attempts to explain market levels of housing prices by supplementing the set of typical objective explanatory variables with variables of behavioral background. The proposed explanatory variables reflect the anchoring effect of prices, understood as the acceptance by market participants of such price levels that are justified not only in terms of socio-economic factors, but also in levels entrenched in their minds. The purpose of the study is to show that the anchoring effect identified through behavioral economics can be generalized and applied to the market behavior of many market participants, and thus explain the weak correspondence between listed housing prices and their objective factors. The study covers 17 local real estate markets in Poland and employs econometric models built under slightly modified procedures of backward stepwise regression.

The Effect of Price Anchoring on the Housing Market Based on Studies of Local Markets in Poland

Real Estate Management and Valuation

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The article attempts to explain market levels of housing prices by supplementing the set of typical objective explanatory variables with variables of...

The Effect of Price Anchoring on the Housing Market Based on Studies of Local Markets in Poland

Pubblicato online: 07 set 2023

Pagine: 44 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/remav-2023-0020

Parole chiave
housing market, price anchoring, Poland

© 2023 Sebastian Kokot, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The Effect of Price Anchoring on the Housing Market Based on Studies of Local Markets in Poland

Pubblicato online: 07 set 2023

Pagine: 44 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/remav-2023-0020

Parole chiavehousing market, price anchoring, Poland

© 2023 Sebastian Kokot, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
housing market, price anchoring, Poland