The Intra-Urban Migration Process: a Perspective

Brown, Lawrence A.; Moore, Eric G.

doi:10.1080/04353684.1970.11879340

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“…These range from market sources such as newspapers and real estate agents to more-specialized community-oriented sources such as friends, relatives, and real estate agents from the same ethnic background (e.g., Brown and Moore, 1970;Barrett, 1973;Rossi, 1980;Margulis, 1988;Sarre et al, 1989). The amount, quality, and biases of housing information provided by these sources can vary from one source to another and may ultimately determine the efficiency of the search strategy and the final outcome of the relocation process.…”

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The Role of Ethnic Real Estate Agents in the Residential Relocation Process: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Suburban Toronto

Teixeira¹,

Murdie²

1997

Urban Geography

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This paper examines the search behavior of a sample of Portuguese and Canadianborn homebuyers in suburban Toronto, Canada. Attention is focused on the extent to which Portuguese homebuyers rely upon real estate agents from the same ethnic background and how this source can influence the homebuyer's housing search and ultimate choice of a residence. Data were obtained from a questionnaire survey that was administered to a sample of 110 Portuguese and 90 Canadian-born recent homebuyers in the city of Mississauga, a western suburb of Toronto. All were nonresidents of Mississauga at the time of purchasing the house. The evidence indicates that Portuguese homebuyers differ significantly from the Canadian-born in their housing search by relying more extensively on ethnic sources of information, particularly real estate agents from the same ethnic background. However, almost equal numbers of Portuguese purchased houses in Portuguese and non-Portuguese neighborhoods in Mississauga. In this respect, the evidence suggests that Portuguese realtors play a more limited role in reinforcing existing spatial patterns of Portuguese settlement in Mississauga.Many homebuyers purchase houses infrequently and lack experience and knowledge about the homebuying process. As a result, the task of looking for and gathering information about residential vacancies can be stressful, costly, and time-consuming, especially in complex and heterogeneous metropolitan housing markets. The gathering of information about housing vacancies, and the search itself, also can be more complex and difficult for certain groups. Visible minorities and recent immigrants, for example, may be in a disad-497 498 TEIXEIRA AND MURDIE vantaged position when searching for and evaluating alternatives because of discrimination, language barriers, and lack of familiarity with the intricacies of local housing markets. Consequently, home seekers often look for information and advice from experts or specialists to help identify and evaluate housing alternatives.Potential homebuyers can obtain information about housing vacancies from a wide variety of sources. These range from market sources such as newspapers and real estate agents to more-specialized community-oriented sources such as friends, relatives, and real estate agents from the same ethnic background (e.g., Brown and Moore, 1970;Barrett, 1973;Rossi, 1980;Margulis, 1988;Sarre et al, 1989). The amount, quality, and biases of housing information provided by these sources can vary from one source to another and may ultimately determine the efficiency of the search strategy and the final outcome of the relocation process. Thus, differentials in search behavior, including access to different types of racially and ethnically biased information, can be a key factor in maintaining racial and ethnic segregation in housing.Of the sources noted above, real estate agents are one of the most important channels of information in the housing-search process. The study of the influence of real estate agents on household relocation...

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The Role of Ethnic Real Estate Agents in the Residential Relocation Process: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Suburban Toronto

Teixeira¹,

Murdie²

1997

Urban Geography

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“…This bias is also a reflection of restrictions on information available to the prospective movers, resulting in the fact that residents are more likely to consider vacancies in the sector within which they already live, and through which they travel to work or to shop (Adams, 1969;Short, 1978). Related research documented sectoral "mental maps" or "awareness space" from which other spatial behavior-such as travel or search patterns-could be derived (Clark, 1970(Clark, , 1971Johnston, 1969Johnston, , 1972Wolpert, 1965;Brown and Moore, 1970).…”

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Residential Mobility: The Impacts of Web-Based Information on the Search Process and Spatial Housing Choice Patterns

Palm¹,

Danis²

2001

Urban Geography

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In the past few years, a vastly enriched information source on housing vacancies has become available through real estate industry-sponsored sites on the Internet. This rich information source has the potential to influence spatial patterns and processes in the search for housing by eliminating information barriers in the search process. Thirty years ago, geographers documented the constraints to the search process caused by limited or biased information fields. The question addressed by this research was whether this new information availability would change the search patterns documented in the 1970s. In order to investigate this question recent movers in Wake County, North Carolina, were surveyed in early 2000, and the characteristics of Web users were compared with nonusers. The major finding of this research is that to date, the Internet has had little impact on search patterns, except that those using the Internet tend to visit a larger number of houses personally than those who do not use the World Wide Web as an information source. [Key words: residential mobility, housing search, Internet.] Geographic studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s identified both a "distance" and a "directional" bias in the patterns of intraurban residential moves, and suggested that these patterns were at least partly the result of limited information fields. Information on potential housing vacancies was expensive to obtain and varied in quality. The best information was generally related to properties near the origin of the prospective mover: prop-641

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“…It conceptualizes moves as the result of households searching for suitable housing and neighborhood environments (Rossi 1955; Clark and Dieleman 1996). Transitions in the life course, such as family formation, having children, or entry or exit from the workforce, condition the utility of housing and its surrounds, motivating when and where households move contingent on their income and neighborhood affordability (Brown and Moore 1970; Speare 1974; Clark, Deurloo, and Dieleman 1984, 2006; Clark and Huang 2003). Given geographical variation in the availability of housing types and neighborhood amenities, the aggregate outcome of these decisions is a patterning of urban residential spaces by household size, type, and age (Gober 1981).…”

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Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States

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Holloway

Wright

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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This article explores the effects of mixed-race household formation on trends in neighborhood-scale racial segregation. Census data show that these effects are nontrivial in relation to the magnitude of decadal changes in residential segregation. An agent-based model illustrates the potential long-run impacts of rising numbers of mixed-race households on measures of neighborhood-scale segregation. It reveals that high rates of mixed-race household formation will reduce residential segregation considerably. This occurs even when preferences for own-group neighbors are high enough to maintain racial separation in residential space in a Schelling-type model. We uncover a disturbing trend, however; levels of neighborhood-scale segregation of single-race households can remain persistently high even while a growing number of mixed-race households drives down the overall rate of residential segregation. Thus, the article’s main conclusion is that parsing neighborhood segregation levels by household type—single versus mixed race—is essential to interpret correctly trends in the spatial separation of racial groups, especially when the fraction of households that are mixed race is dynamic. More broadly, the article illustrates the importance of household-scale processes for urban outcomes and joins debates in geography about interscalar relationships.

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The Intra-Urban Migration Process: a Perspective

Cited by 363 publications

References 28 publications

The Role of Ethnic Real Estate Agents in the Residential Relocation Process: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Suburban Toronto

The Role of Ethnic Real Estate Agents in the Residential Relocation Process: A Case Study of Portuguese Homebuyers in Suburban Toronto

Residential Mobility: The Impacts of Web-Based Information on the Search Process and Spatial Housing Choice Patterns

Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States

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