scholarly journals What Explains the Differential Treatment of Renters Based on Ethnicity? New Evidence From Sydney

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Galster ◽  
Heather MacDonald ◽  
Jacqueline Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Differential Treatment ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Rental Market ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Rental Housing Market

This article conducts the first contextual analysis of ethnic-based discrimination in an Australian rental housing market: metropolitan Sydney. Logistic regression is employed to investigate how the likelihood of five behaviors by rental agents that may favor Anglo home seekers varies according to characteristics of the agent, home seeker, dwelling, and neighborhood. We find that several forms of discrimination favoring Anglos are consistently more likely in neighborhoods characterized by lower crime rates and shares of renter households, regardless of the ethnicity of the agent. Other patterns are consistent with the hypothesis that, in general in the Sydney rental market, agents regardless of ethnicity are motivated to discriminate by statistical discrimination. Our result that profit, not prejudice, drives discrimination implies that it will prove resilient to unfettered housing market forces and changes in societal ethnic tolerance, but instead, must be addressed through enhanced civil rights enforcement strategies.

scholarly journals The Impact of Migration on a Regulated Rental Market

REGION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Adam Alexander Tyrcha
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Limited Ability ◽  
Rental Market ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rental Housing Market

Throughout the 20th century, the Swedish rental market has generally been heavily regulated, with both a rental queue in place, as well as generally fixed rents, with limited ability to vary these. Though these systems remain in place, in the 21st century, a number of deregulatory measures have been taken. Meanwhile, evolving migration flows and strong humanitarian migration in particular have continued. These developments combined mean that now more than ever, impacts of migration on the rental housing market are increasingly likely. This paper investigates the relationship between foreign-born and internal migration and rents on the housing market. Findings suggest that foreign-born migration, and refugees in particular, impact rents, especially in major cities.

Empirical analysis of residential submarket conceptualisation in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Kofi Gavu ◽  
Anthony Owusu-Ansah
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rental Market ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Nested Approach ◽  
Rental Housing Market

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically test for submarket existence based on an understanding of the residential rental housing market in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Based on extant literature and market observations, the authors provide key concepts and an overview of the residential rental market dynamics in Ghana. Reseachers appreciate that submarkets may exist in the Ghanaian rental market but have ignored the empirical testing for submarket existence due to data asymmetries. Based on real estate experts and stakeholder consultations, a priori delineation of submarkets are constructed based on spatial, structural and a nested approach. Submarket existence is tested using the Kruskal–Wallis H test and Hedonic modelling techniques. Findings By using fieldwork data from Accra rental market, the analysis provides credence to the conceptualisation of submarkets and how to empirically test for same. It is argued that researchers should use alternative methods to compare results to make far-reaching conclusions. Research limitations/implications Examining the hypothesis that differential rental values exists for submarkets has implications for policy decisions to target submarket constructs differently to improve market maturity. Practical implications The research provides stakeholder investors in the rental space an understanding of market dynamics for profit maximisation, and end-users to maximise utility in deciding where to live – and as such households could benefit from making informed investment decisions on housing. Originality/value This research is one of the first attempts to empirically identify and test for submarkets existence in Ghana’s residential rental housing market.

Investigating defiant attitudes in keeping lease agreement obligations in private rental housing market in Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Job Taiwo Gbadegesin ◽  
Harry van der Heijden ◽  
Peter Boelhouwer
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rental Market ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
Professional Body ◽  
Rental Housing Market ◽  
Lease Agreement

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature and dimension of non-compliance (defiance) with lease agreement obligations in private rental housing market between managers (agents/private rental housing providers or landlords) and end-users (tenants – rental housing consumers), with a view to identifying challenges in rental housing lease administration in Nigeria emerging rental market. Design/methodology/approach – The quantitative data collected from practicing estate surveyor and valuers (statutorily registered agents), who manage private rental housing in their portfolios on behalf of owners and tenants, who occupy rental housing within Lagos state (the largest property market in Nigeria and West Africa). Using a theoretical model in the context of five lease agreement obligations, data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (one sample t-test, independent t-test and correlation). Findings – While economic circumstances (economic factors) are considered the major vulnerable factor that cause acts of non-compliance, defiance against “covenant not- to- sublet (subletting covenant (SC))” and “prompt rental payment covenant” are the two most non-compliance attitudes (precipitation events) observed from both actors. There is correlation among all vulnerability elements and precipitating events. While a significant relationship was only observed between “SC” and all vulnerability elements on the part of agents, there is significant relationship among all the vulnerability elements and precipitating events on the part of tenants. Also, while tenants attached higher significance to all the vulnerability factors than managers, both actors attached different level of priority to precipitating events. Lastly, equitable remedies and peaceful entry are the two most adopted intervention tools. Research limitations/implications – This paper is limited to seeking both the professional opinion of licensed/registered agents and the rental housing consumers-tenants. Practical implications – The research points to an increasing need for the stakeholders – Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (a Government parastatal) and the Nigerian Institutions of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (the constituted professional body), to establish and reform the code of practice in this direction with due consideration to the factors identified in this study. Effort also should be upgraded in the intervention techniques adopted in order to improve on emerging rental market. Originality/value – The paper explores an important aspect of lease administration in private rental housing market. It also provides platform on which the acts of defiance can be wiped out in the emerging rental market.

scholarly journals Online rental housing market representation and the digital reproduction of urban inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Boeing
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Housing Search ◽  
Rental Housing Market

As the rental housing market moves online, the internet offers divergent possible futures: either the promise of more-equal access to information for previously marginalized homeseekers, or a reproduction of longstanding information inequalities. Biases in online listings’ representativeness could impact different communities’ access to housing search information, reinforcing traditional information segregation patterns through a digital divide. They could also circumscribe housing practitioners’ and researchers’ ability to draw broad market insights from listings to understand rental supply and affordability. This study examines millions of Craigslist rental listings across the USA and finds that they spatially concentrate and overrepresent whiter, wealthier, and better-educated communities. Other significant demographic differences exist in age, language, college enrollment, rent, poverty rate, and household size. Most cities’ online housing markets are digitally segregated by race and class, and we discuss various implications for residential mobility, community legibility, gentrification, housing voucher utilization, and automated monitoring and analytics in the smart cities paradigm. While Craigslist contains valuable crowdsourced data to better understand affordability and available rental supply in real time, it does not evenly represent all market segments. The internet promises information democratization, and online listings can reduce housing search costs and increase choice sets. However, technology access/preferences and information channel segregation can concentrate such information-broadcasting benefits in already-advantaged communities, reproducing traditional inequalities and reinforcing residential sorting and segregation dynamics. Technology platforms like Craigslist construct new institutions with the power to shape spatial economies, human interactions, and planners’ ability to monitor and respond to urban challenges.

scholarly journals Rental Housing Market in Riga: Price Determinants and Lesson Keys of Helsinki

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Sindija Balode ◽  
Uldis Kamols
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Price Determinants ◽  
Rent Level ◽  
Rental Housing Market

Abstract The research focuses on the rental housing market in Riga and reveals that among factors that affect the rent level in neighbourhoods of Riga the most are distance from the city centre, neighbourhood safety, quality of housing and transport infrastructure, access to shopping malls, and employment opportunities. The aim of the research is to analyse the housing market in Riga, by putting a special focus on price determinants and lesson keys of Helsinki. Quantitative and qualitative research methods are used in the paper with the biggest contribution being extraction and analysis of data about more than 1800 rental apartments in Riga from the largest Latvian online real estate advertisement platform. Quantitative analysis is based on investigating relationships between average rent levels in different neighbourhoods of Riga and index values of 23 urban environment factors. In addition, the rental housing market in Helsinki is researched, emphasising few guidelines for rental housing market improvements in Riga, such as introducing government subsidies.

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