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A Review on Housing Tenure Choice

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The research on housing tenure choice is one of the important topics in western real estate research. This paper reviews the current status of the study from the economic perspective, demographic perspective and social psychological perspective respectively. Moreover, this paper provides some inspirations for our research.

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  1. Dongguan University of Technology, Room 12D, Building 6, Haiyinchangcheng, Houhai Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, China, 518054

    Ke Fu

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  1. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

    Jiayuan Wang

  2. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

    Zhikun Ding

  3. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

    Liang Zou

  4. School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Jian Zuo

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Fu, K. (2014). A Review on Housing Tenure Choice. In: Wang, J., Ding, Z., Zou, L., Zuo, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35548-6_35

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