Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision
Owning a home at a bad location is detrimental to its market value. Besides, demographic forces have influenced the demand for housing over the past decades. This study identifies the type of location attributes and demographic characteristics’ influences on housing purchase decisions of home buyers...
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| author | Mang, Jie Sheng Zainal, Rozlin Mat Radzuan, Indera Syahrul |
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| description | Owning a home at a bad location is detrimental to its market value. Besides, demographic forces have influenced the demand for housing over the past decades. This study identifies the type of location attributes and demographic characteristics’ influences on housing purchase decisions of home buyers in Iskandar Malaysia. This research intends to collect data through questionnaire. The respondents are the house owners of Taman Nusa Sentral. The data is then analysed with correlation to study the relationship between demographic and location variables. Most of the demographic characteristics, except Gender and Income, have significant influences on location facilities and services when it comes to house purchase decision. This study is able to overcome the problems of low house owning rate and oversupply and provides preferable location attributes to the housing developers. |
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| spelling | uthm.eprints-38232021-11-22T04:00:11Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3823/ Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision Mang, Jie Sheng Zainal, Rozlin Mat Radzuan, Indera Syahrul TH4021-4977 Buildings: Construction with reference to use. Including public buildings, dwellings Owning a home at a bad location is detrimental to its market value. Besides, demographic forces have influenced the demand for housing over the past decades. This study identifies the type of location attributes and demographic characteristics’ influences on housing purchase decisions of home buyers in Iskandar Malaysia. This research intends to collect data through questionnaire. The respondents are the house owners of Taman Nusa Sentral. The data is then analysed with correlation to study the relationship between demographic and location variables. Most of the demographic characteristics, except Gender and Income, have significant influences on location facilities and services when it comes to house purchase decision. This study is able to overcome the problems of low house owning rate and oversupply and provides preferable location attributes to the housing developers. ExcelingTech Pub 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3823/1/AJ%202018%20%28365%29.pdf Mang, Jie Sheng and Zainal, Rozlin and Mat Radzuan, Indera Syahrul (2018) Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision. International Journal of Supply Chain Management, 7 (3). pp. 94-100. ISSN 2050-7399 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5055480 |
| spellingShingle | TH4021-4977 Buildings: Construction with reference to use. Including public buildings, dwellings Mang, Jie Sheng Zainal, Rozlin Mat Radzuan, Indera Syahrul Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision |
| title | Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision |
| title_full | Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision |
| title_fullStr | Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision |
| title_short | Influence of location attributes on home buyers’ purchase decision |
| title_sort | influence of location attributes on home buyers purchase decision |
| topic | TH4021-4977 Buildings: Construction with reference to use. Including public buildings, dwellings |
| url | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3823/1/AJ%202018%20%28365%29.pdf |
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