Identifying the effect of retail brands on private residential rental prices in Great Britain.

ABSTRACT: This study extends our understanding of the influence of proximity to retail grocery provision on housing rental prices. To achieve this, extensive data on the size and location of retail outlets are combined with neighbourhood rental values for small areas across a two year period, together with varied contextual data for each area. In order to control the influence of many confounding variables in the determination of housing rentals, the technique of propensity score matching is applied. This provides a sophisticated means for the comparison between areas where there is substantial natural variation, rather than manageable controls. For a variety of types of retail brands, only a significant relationship is found between the proximity of a Premium retail outlet and the housing rental va

SUBMITTER: Clark S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8491747 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature