Is the Real Estate Market of New Housing Stock Influenced by Urban Vibrancy?
Table 2
Summary statistics of neighbourhood service variables. Data sources: (a) TREMO data, (b) ISTAT open data, (c) Municipality of Turin Geoportal Open Data, and (d) Piedmont Region Geoportal Open Data (source: author’s elaboration).
Dimensions
POIs definition
Source
Mean
St. dev
TOPOGRAPHY
SZ_SKM
Area of each SZ in km2
(c), (b)
1.383
1.019
BLD_SKM
Density of buildings
(c), (d)
409.991
288.166
POP_SKM
Density of residential population
(b)
9368.274
7118.101
LANDMARKS
NRP_SKM
Density of religious places
(c)
3.312
4.579
NHP_SKM
Density of historical places
(c)
0.228
0.800
TRANSPORT
NCS_SKM
Car sharing station density
(d)
0.348
1.009
NMS_SKM
Presence of metro stations within 500 m
(d)
0.320
1.266
NAS_SKM
Bus station density
(d)
24.185
13.361
NXS_SKM
Taxi station density
(d)
1.065
1.767
NTS_SKM
Presence of train stations within 500 m
(d)
0.393
1.343
PAKM_SKM
Rate of pedestrian areas
(c), (d)
0.008
0.020
CULTURAL OFFERINGS
NL
Libraries density
(c)
0.085
0.273
NC
Cinemas density
(c)
0.580
2.140
NM
Museums density
(c)
1.022
3.189
NT
Theatres density
(c)
0.508
1.300
RETAIL
C_RST_SKM
Retail cafè and restaurants
(d)
70.953
86.210
C_FOD_SKM
Retail_ grocery stores
(d)
53.186
64.320
C_BET_SKM
Retail beauty
(d)
43.042
43.521
C_MIX_SKM
Retail miscellaneous
(d)
102.273
124.768
C_CLT_SKM
Retail_ clothes
(d)
30.562
57.387
C_FRE_SKM
Retail freetime
(d)
21.923
25.406
C_JWL_SKM
Retail jewellery and antiquities
(d)
18.145
25.840
C_HOM_SKM
Retail_ home
(d)
14.091
18.215
C_ELC_SKM
Retail electronics
(d)
11.800
16.762
C_VEH_SKM
Retail cars and fuel
(d)
6.950
5.590
C_HEL_SKM
Retail healthcare and pharmacies
(d)
7.229
7.646
C_SUP_SKM
Retail supermarkets
(d)
2.840
3.408
C_FUN_SKM
Retail of funeral services
(d)
0.827
1.546
NCB_SKM
Commercial centres
(c)
15.599
15.129
NMK
Open air markets
(c)
0.489
0.717
RESIDENTIAL SECTOR
NRB_SKM
Residential buildings
(b)
340.402
264.880
RESHU
Almost occupied by one resident
(b)
4603.040
3716.588
VHU_SKM
Vacant housing units
(b)
471.644
467.029
NRESHU
Occupied by only not residents
(b)
7.187
21.861
THU
Total housing units
(b)
5081.871
4111.561
GREEN & SPORTS
NSB_SKM
Density of sport buildings
(c)
6.192
7.735
GAKM_SKM
Rate of public green areas
(c)
1.187
1.037
EDUCATION
NUB
University density
(c)
0.542
2.067
NNSB
Nursery school density
(c)
0.578
0.933
NS
School density
(c)
7.002
6.249
HEALTHCARE
NH
Hospital density
(d)
0.559
1.434
Variables subsequently selected and grouped by means of PCA.
