Local housing market and transportation improvements: The case of cul de sac and extremely remote localities

• Main Author: Karlsson, Vifill
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Louvain-la-Neuve: European Regional Science Association (ERSA) 2010
• Subjects: ddc:330; R40; R21; R41; C23; Housing prices; Transportation improvements; Distance gradient; Local; Siglufjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/118777

In this paper, I examine the relationship between housing prices and transport improvements in case of tunnel in a locality in an extremely remote area of Iceland - a village far north called Siglufjörður. It have been documented that transportation improvements tend to influence housing prices, due...