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This paper discusses problems typical of eliciting housing preference. It will be argued that stated preference and choice models are potentially powerful in eliciting consumer housing preferences. This approach is illustrated in an example of new housing construction in Meerhoven. The design of the stated choice experiment is outlined and the estimated part-worth utilities of the attributes are presented. Furthermore, choices for houses in low- and high-density environments are predicted and its is examined how much more households are willing to pay for low-density housing.
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Eric Molin is Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Harmen Oppewal is assistant professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Harry Timmermans is professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He also hold the Carthy Foudation Chair in Makerking at the Department of Marketing and Economic Analysis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
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Molin, E., Oppewal, H. & Timmermans, H. Predicting consumer response to new housing: A stated choice experiment. Neth J of Housing and the Built Environment 11, 297–311 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02496593
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02496593