Gemeentelijke en regionale woonvisies: Gang van zaken. Reflectie op Karakter, Kennis & Kapitaal

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Verhuizende bedrijven: Zijn bedrijventerreinen nog steeds populair?

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The propensity and the postponement of firm relocations. Testing approaches for housing choice models

Forecasting demand for industrial land and commercial property depends on a valid estimation how many firms move to various locations for various reasons. Estimations based on stated choices and revealed choices often differ in size and composition. Spatial and economic planning benefit if we reduce this gap by means of a better understanding why some firms move, others postpone and others chose for in situ improvements. In regional science there is little knowledge about these processes behind firm movements, apart from location factors as such. In contrast, residential geography and applied demography have a long tradition in behavioural approach to model housing choice. Therefore, in this paper we test to what extent concepts of this approach can be used to improve our knowledge on firm movements. In particular we focus on the propensity and the postponement to move by analyzing a longitudinal dataset. Also we analyse preferences, choices between preferences and substitution between preferences.OTB Research Institut

Presence of water in residential environments - value for money?

The role of water in the locational bundle of residential value and choice determinants is multiple. Relevant attributes pertain to water quality, proximity and length of water frontage, view, size of water body, coastal development costs, and costs caused by flooding. They also pertain to different types of water: the sea, lake, river and so on. This is a systematic literature review of the influence of water proximity and use factors on property prices and area attractiveness within a spatial cost-benefit setting. According to the studies that were reviewed the composite effect for water quality, proximity and view generate a price premium up to ca 60% for seaside property, 25% for lakeside property, and up to 40% for a variety of other inland water bodies. In addition, few studies estimate the on-site potential for a coastal area with development restrictions as a net effect of the positive amenity benefits and negative opportunity costs to vary in the range from +21.5 to 14.5%. On balance these figures point to substantial benefits of water location. However, the price impact of flood risk was quantified separately as up to 22%, and may be deducted from these figures, given a localised tendency for such hazard. Thus, it may be concluded that for the attractiveness potential of a site the environmental externalities play a large role. Furthermore, when allocating housing claims spatially using an operational model where all land uses are covered extra costs to overcome conflict and scarcity situations may arise.OT

The appraisal of the water-'shed'

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