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Abstract
Due to economic and population growth farmland and to a lesser extend other undeveloped areas are
under pressure in the urban-rural fringe in British Columbia, Canada. The objectives of this paper are
to determine if residential property values near Victoria, BC include open-space premiums for
farmland or parks or both, and to determine if using assessed values instead of market prices of the
property result in the same findings. We estimate a SUR (Seemingly Unrelated Regression) model with
two hedonic pricing equations, one with actual market values as the dependent variable and one with
assessed property values, and compare the resulting estimates of shadow prices for open space
amenities. Furthermore, we take account of spatial autocorrelation and combine Method of Moment
estimates of the spatial parameters in both equations.