Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Jean-Michel Etienne, "Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris: An Unbalanced Spatial Lag Pseudo-Panel Model with Nested Random Effects", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2015, pp. 509-528. The data base "BIEN" contains real estate transactions and is managed by the Notary Chamber of Paris. It was obtained through a research contract. This data set is confidential and cannot be made available for public use. You can write the Notary Chamber of Paris at the following address to request the data: Chambre des Notaires de Paris 12 Avenue Victoria 75001 PARIS Tel: (+33) 1 44 82 24 00 Fax: (+33) 1 44 82 24 10 email: chambre@paris.notaires.fr website: http://www.paris.notaires.fr/ The sub-sample used in our study pertains to the city of Paris over the period 1990-2003. The data base is anonymous in order to comply with French law. It contains information on each transaction. It is a pseudo-panel in the sense that these transactions are not repeated sales. For each flat sold, we have the following information: year : the year it is sold arrond : the arrondissement in which the flat is located quartier : the quartier in which the flat is located ilot : the ilot in which the flat is located prix1 : the selling price in euros prix_surf : the selling price in euros per square meter nb_room : the number of rooms (not only bedrooms) surface : the surface of the flat in square meters nb_bathroom : the number of bathrooms nb_room_maid : the number of maid's rooms nb_garage_plot : the number of garage plots nb_floor : the floor where the flat is located balcon : dummy variable (1/0) if there is a balcony epoque_1 : time built (before 1850) epoque_2 : time built (1850-1913) epoque_3 : time built (1914-1947) epoque_4 : time built (1948-1969) epoque_5 : time built (1970-1980) epoque_6 : time built (1981-2003) avenue : dummy variable (1/0) if the flat is located on an avenue boulevard : dummy variable (1/0) if the flat is located on a boulevard place : dummy variable (1/0) if the flat is located on a place rue : dummy variable (1/0) if the flat is located on a street dist_arrond : average distance to the center of the arrondissement dist_zone : average distance to the center of the quartier xc : axis of the Lambert II grid coordinates yc : ordinates of the Lambert II grid coordinates F2 : type of flat, dummy (1/0) for a flat with two rooms F3 : type of flat, dummy (1/0) for a flat with three rooms F4m : type of flat, dummy (1/0) for a flat with four (or more) rooms bathroom_0 : dummy (1/0) if there is no bathroom bathroom_1 : dummy (1/0) if there is one bathroom bathroom_2 : dummy (1/0) if there are two bathrooms bathroom_3p : dummy (1/0) if there are three or more bathrooms room_maid_0 : dummy (1/0) if there is no maid's room room_maid_1 : dummy (1/0) if there is one maid's room room_maid_2p : dummy (1/0) if there are two or more maid's rooms garage_plot_0 : dummy (1/0) if there is no garage plot garage_plot_1 : dummy (1/0) if there is one garage plot garage_plot_2 : dummy (1/0) if there are two garage plots garage_plot_3p : dummy (1/0) if there are three or more garage plots floor_03 : dummy (1/0) if the flat is located between the street level and the third floor floor_47 : dummy (1/0) if the flat is located between the fourth and the seventh floor floor_811 : dummy (1/0) if the flat is located between the eighth and the eleventh floor floor_12p : dummy (1/0) if the flat is located higher than the eleventh floor surf_2040 : surface ranging between 20 and 40 square meters surf_4160 : surface ranging between 41 and 60 square meters surf_6180 : surface ranging between 61 and 80 square meters surf_81100 : surface ranging between 81 and 100 square meters surf_100p : surface of more than 100 square meters The data are sorted by year, arrondissement, quartier, ilot, and Lambert II grid coordinates. The size of the dataset is 156896 transactions.