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A social psychologist once chided an economist:
You say that prices are determined by supply and demand, but I know they are determined by people.1
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A valuable statistical compilation, and a possibly complacent analysis, is given in Housing Policy; a Consultative Document H.M.S.O. Cmnd 6851, 1977. For a more critical view, see Housing, rents, cost and subsidies A. Grey et al Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy, 1978.
Graham Hallett, Housing and Land Policies in West Germany and Britain, Macmillan, 1977, Pt.I.
This appears to be what Professor Denman means by his concept of ‘proprietary land use analysis’. (D. R. Denman and S. Prodano, Land Use: An Introduction to Proprietary Land Use Analysis. Allen & Unwin, 1972).
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Ricardo’s emphasis on ‘differential’ rent illustrates an important point, but can be misleading. Economic rent is, more generally, based on scarcity, and can arise even when there is no ‘differential’: e.g. an island of uniform fertility, once all the land is cultivated (Stonier & Hague, A Textbook of Economic Theory p.276 ff ).This is more than an academic quibble. I have heard a surveyor of great experience argue that the traditional theory of land pricing did not apply in a heavily populated island like Britain because there was no land left which earned no rent.
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Ideas have often been put forward for low start’ mortgages, in which both payments by borrowers and interest to depositors would rise over time, in line with house prices. Indeed an enterprising British finance house introduced a scheme of this type in 1972. It failed because, although ‘many people wanted to lend on these terms, no one was anxious to borrow. It is also worth pointing out that the normal repayment mortagage, combined with tax relief on mortgage, is in fact a low start’ mortgage since the proportion of interest payment (attracting tax relief) starts high and falls over the period of the mortgage.
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One study defines speculation in the sense of ‘witholding’. This brings out the point, although it is not normal usage. (Dr. W. K. Risse, Grundzüge einer Theorie des Baubodenmarktes Domus Verlag, Bonn, 1974, p. 76 fi.
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Hallett, G. (1979). The Property Market. In: Urban Land Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04537-2_3
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