The purpose of this study was to determine the influences of individual housing attributes and economic variables on vacant houses a survey of vacant houses in Gunsan. According to the analysis, individual attributes had a significant influence. The attributes included land area, total floor area, building age, building structure, landlocked land, land shape and roof structure. In terms of regional attributes, the proportion of the population aged 65 or older was significant and the marginal effect was also large. Vacant houses could occur when they are located on landlocked plots where are difficult to enter or exit and they have little value to use due to small floor area. Atypical shape of the land also had significance, but building structures with wood or brick as opposed to concrete and roof structures with wood or tile had a greater influence on vacant houses than all other factors. In light of a large influence of building or roof structure, it was evident that vacant houses are related to the value of use such as remodeling. However, economic variables such as were never significant. The results showed that vacant houses depend more on individual attributes than on economic variables. In particular, structural variables for building or roof had a great deal of influence on the houses. This study explained the importance of managing vacant houses by levels and the fact that vacant houses resulted from dwelling, a consumption value, in terms of selection or use to move a house.
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