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Effects of urban land-use planning on housing prices in Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • Shichao Lu
    ,
  • Zhihua Zhang
    ,
  • James Crabbe
    ,
  • Prin Suntichaikul
  • Shandong University
    ,
  • University of Oxford
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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

Abstract

Chiang Mai is an emerging tourism-oriented city in Thailand. The booming tourism industry during the past decades has triggered significant expansion in its urban land area, resulting in a large number of newly-built residential communities appearing on unplanned land. In this study, we used multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR)-based hedonic price analysis to investigate 4624 housing transactions from 524 residential communities in Chiang Mai. This showed that the recent land-use planning in Chiang Mai has had unusual effects on housing prices; specifically, the effects of accessibility to hospitals, primary and secondary schools, green parks, and shopping malls could be ignored, demonstrating that local residents were well satisfied with land-use planning for high-quality medical and education sources and good living environments throughout the whole of Chiang Mai, and that no more land-use planning and investment on these facilities was needed. However, limited bus routes were only used for tourism and could not provide convenient routes for local residents, leading to their negative effects on housing prices in downtown areas, so the local government should lower the bus stop density in downtown areas and strengthen the transportation links between downtown areas and suburbs. Our study will not only support the urban land planning department of Chiang Mai to optimize residential communities and nearby facilities, but can also provide insights into housing price formation mechanisms in similar tourism-oriented cities in Thailand and beyond.

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Original language

English

Article number

1136

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Land (Volume 13, Issue 8)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 24/07/2024
  • Published - 25/07/2024

Publication status

Published - 25/07/2024

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  • handle.net: 10547/626353
  • Scopus: 85202628495

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