MEASUREMENT & ANALYSIS OF HOUS

This book contains an overview of methods and techniques that can be used to predict and explain housing preferences and housing choices. Although research into these factors has always played a role in market-oriented housing, it is recently becoming even more important. For decades, there was a large quantitative shortage of dwellings on the housing market. What was built, for whom and in which quantity was decided by the suppliers. Risks were limited because there hardly was any surplus. However, now that the quantitative housing shortage has largely been overcome, a mismatch between the characteristics of the current housing supply and the demands that residents have with regard to housing, comes to light. One of the most important goals for predicting and explaining housing preferences is to improve the correspondence between the housing demand and supply and the residential environment. Insight into the market-demand must be the starting point for investments in newly-built dwellings and for stock management. This insight can be obtained from knowing residents' preferences, which can be measured in a number of ways. Each chapter of this book will discuss one of the methodological methods to obtain insight into residents' housing preferences and choices.