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Hedonic Price of Housing Space

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  • Sumit Agarwal
  • Yanying Chen
  • Jing Li
  • Yi Jin Tan

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This article estimates hedonic prices for different levels of housing space, by exploiting a unique space‐adding project in Singapore that added a uniform amount of space to each existing housing unit regardless of the original size. This space adding program was carried out if sufficient residents vote in favor of space adding. Using a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) strategy after restricting our sample to narrow margins around the voting cutoff, we find that the additional space increased the resale price of a housing unit by 7% on average, and the extent of price appreciation varied significantly across the original size of the units.

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  • Sumit Agarwal & Yanying Chen & Jing Li & Yi Jin Tan, 2021. "Hedonic Price of Housing Space," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 49(2), pages 574-609, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:49:y:2021:i:2:p:574-609
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.12298
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