Sources of Difference in Information Used by Black and White Housing Seekers: An Exploratory Analysis

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Survey data are used to examine search characteristics of recent home-buyers in two Boston neighbourhoods and two suburban Boston towns. Significant differences are found for black and white buyers, with blacks tending to use fewer information sources and to inspect fewer houses before purchase. The marketing of 'for sale' properties in the two Boston neighbourhoods covered by the survey is also examined. It appears to be more difficult to collect information from newspapers and brokers in predominantly black parts of these neighbourhoods than in predominantly white parts. While other factors considered in the paper can also explain lower information use by black home-buyers, it seems plausible that greater difficulty in collecting information in the black areas is a contributing factor.

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