Determinants of housing prices in Spanish’ urban areas

Paper presented to the 40th Congress of the European Regional Science Association, Barcelona, August 30-September 2, 2000.Residential price level in Spain varies broadly among markets. Real state theory explains that prices depend on market characteristics such as vacancy level, land availability, construction offer elasticity to respond to high or low speed to changes on the demand, as well as economic growth potentiality, industrial and services activities located inside urban areas, etc. Price analysis in main Spanish main cities show that tensions appear to exist in some of them where economic activity is not as dynamic as others (Taltavull, 1999). These tensions are reflected in price levels in places where main economic activities are not the most efficient ones. This paper tries to find evidence of the existent relationship between residential prices and economic factors that are demand determinants such wages, migrations and productive structure, among others. It uses panel data and GLS methodology to capture relationship between prices and other economic and demographic factors and demographic nature. The results show how some relationships appears to exist between price levels and families’ waged income as well as with population into 71 different main cities in Spain

New supply and housing price behaviour: A short revision of the empirical evidence

House-building has been very intense in some European countries throughout the last 15 years but not in others. It has generated an expansion in the residential stock that has been explained as the result of some demand forces playing at the same time and boosting residential market mechanisms during this period. Although demand pressures have been similar across Europe, the new supply construction has reacted with distinct strength depending on the economies. This paper reviews the literature seeking for reasons to analyze the different reactions and the implication on house prices growth of development sector. It mainly classifies the literature between both the group that suggests stable supply elasticities in the short-long term and those sustaining that elasticities change dramatically, reflecting the developers reaction to market innovations. The differences in new housing supply responses across European countries remain a wide area for housing researchers to explain how housing prices react by region

Por una sierra de Ávila libre de minas y de especuladores

Se respira aire puro, la paz inunda nuestros pequeños pueblos y, de repente, aprovechando la creencia de que son pocas personas las que los habitan y su nivel cultural es bajo, ¡salta la alarma!, y descubrimos la pretensión de convertir nuestra sierra en un campo de minas por parte de quienes unos años atrás ni siquiera sabían que la sierra de Ávila existía. Ahora amenazan a nuestro ganado, nuestros campos, nuestros negocios, nuestra salud, y con ello el irrepetible y extraordinario legado que tan amablemente cuidaron quienes nos precedieron

¡De panzazo! No es otra pelicula de Juan Carlos Rulfo

_Análisis del documental ¡De panzazo!, producido por Mexicanos Primero, asociación fundada por Claudio X.  González (creador de Fundación Televisa), en el cual se concluye que esta obra codirigida por Juan Carlos Rulfo y el periodista de Televisa Carlos Loret de Mola no posee el sello distintivo de las obras de Rulfo. Incluye una entrevista original con Juan Carlos Rulfo, hijo del escritor jalisciense Juan Rulfo