| Abstract: |
Even though land use covenants are a pervasive feature in residential land markets, they are typically subsumed into the
economist's picture of zoning and related land use regulation, In contrast to the traditional approach We develop theory to
explain the price spreads in the residential housing market. The model includes the list price of the home, the cost of the search,
the standard deviation of offer prices, and TOM. Empirical tests using 3,597 sales for 25 months show a robust relationship of
housing market spreads and these variables. Listing price and cost of search have the predicted positive coefficients, and the
standard deviation of price offers if found to be negatively related to the price spread.
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