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Atypicality and the Natural Vacancy Rate Hypothesis
Author(s) -
Jud G. Donald,
Frew James
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
real estate economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.064
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1540-6229
pISSN - 1080-8620
DOI - 10.1111/1540-6229.00523
Subject(s) - natural (archaeology) , economics , apartment , vacancy defect , econometrics , physics , geology , engineering , condensed matter physics , paleontology , civil engineering
This paper formulates and tests a model of rent change based on the natural vacancy rate hypothesis. It incorporates the Haurin [6] hypothesis in which the natural rate for particular units is determined by their atypicality. Estimates of the model indicate a natural rate of 6.5%. However, the rate is shown to vary systematically across individual units: the more atypical an apartment unit, the higher the natural rate.