One of the most popular areas of research in real estate economics and finance has been the pricing of residential real estate. Empirical research has primarily focused on identifying house characteristics that most influence selling price. The results from this body of literature have often been in conflict regarding the impact of a variable on selling 12price. This study seeks to clarify some of the confusion by using quantile regression to measure the effect of various housing characteristics on house prices. Results of this study show that the effect of housing characteristics on selling price can be better explained by estimating quantile regressions across price categories. For example, previous studies that have examined the effect of characteristics such as square footage or age on selling price have found mixed results in terms of both the level and the direction of change. This study shows that some of those differences may be explained by differences in house prices. In particular, the regression coefficients of some variables behave differently across different house price levels, or quantiles. Buyers of higher-priced homes appear to price certain housing characteristics differently from buyers of lower-priced homes. For the given data set, it is shown that the quantile effects dominate any effects on coefficient size and statistical significance that arise from spatial autocorrelation. In fact, taking explicit account of spatial autocorrelation in the quantile regressions, adds very little information. Whether this is a general result or particular to the data set that is being used in this study is an open question that awaits further research. This study produces some interesting results. For example, square footage is often used to determine the appraised value of a home since it is expected to have a significant effect on the selling price. While previous studies bear this out, it is interesting to see how buyers in different price ranges value this variable. This is shown by the significant difference between the coefficients at the lowest and the highest quantiles where the additional price of a square foot for the highest priced homes is two and a half times the additional price per square foot for the lowest-priced homes. Clearly,
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