ZT: Buying in the wops? Factor in car costs

NewLynnHse

所以有些同学说中区，越靠近CBD的始终是王，也是有道理的。

onetreehill1 你怎么看？

Buying in the wops? Factor in car costs

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=11200918

Migrating to the outer suburbs may not be the affordable dream many Aucklanders believe, according to a new study which lays bare the true cost of commuting.

Researchers have for the first time created a detailed picture of housing affordability in New Zealand's largest city when commuting costs are factored in, with surprising results.

One calculation showed that the most affordable homes could even be found in some inner areas of the city.

"When you take into account that people in outlying areas are so much more dependent on automobiles than people in inner-city neighbourhoods, transport costs should play a role in what locations we consider to be affordable or not," study co-author Kerry Mattingly said.

The study, co-authored by Dr John Morrissey and published this week in scientific journal Cities, criticises status quo housing affordability measurements for not properly taking transport costs into account.

The researchers created two separate income-based indicators to measure combined commuting and housing affordability across different suburbs of Auckland.


This stands in stark contrast to measures considering housing costs in isolation, which show affordability generally improves with distance from the centre of the city.

One of the indicators, which they said presented a more accurate picture of how affordable an area would be for a typical family to live in, found the most affordable areas were found in the lower central, inner-west and inner-south of Auckland.

Areas close to employment hubs appeared relatively more affordable using the measure due to modest expenditure on commuting.

In some peripheral areas, average annual commuting costs could be five times the amount shouldered by those living in many central Auckland neighbourhoods.

While mean commuter costs for some of the furthest reaches of Auckland was higher than $4000 each year, some neighbourhoods around the CBD incurred less than $600.


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onetreehill1

被牛林鼠版点名是件很荣幸的事，呵呵，Kiwi就是眼光短，就看着节省交通费上，最重要的是节省了时间，时间就是金钱，每天回家的路上节省时间可以做很多事，哪怕是在家休息多点时间也比在车里呆着要对健康有好处，不过对于岛毛和不差时间的人就无所谓啦