The choice of residential locations is affected by both dwelling and location characteristics. Preferences for these characteristics vary with each household's requirements, traditionally attributed to the household's lifecycle stage. With a cross-sectional study that identifies lifecycle stages according to household structure, this paper offers an investigation of residential location and shows that not all components of preference heterogeneity can be accounted for by household structure. Latent class choice models examine household segments according to lifestyle preferences. The results reveal the degree of association between identified household lifecycle segments and estimated lifestyle latent classes. The composition of the latent structure differs for each lifecycle segment; income and the age of the head of household strongly affect housing preferences, but do not lead to the same latent class structure for households at different lifecycle stages.
AassveABettiGMazzucoSMencariniL, 2007, “Marital disruption and economic well-being: A comparative analysis”Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A170781–799
2.
ABS, 2006, “Household Expenditure Survey, Australia: Summary of Results 2003–04”, ABS cat. no. 6530.0 Re-issue, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra
ÆroT, 2006, “Residential choice from a lifestyle perspective”Housing, Theory and Society23109–130
5.
BaileyNLivingstonM, 2008, “Selective migration and neighbourhood deprivation: Evidence from 2001 census migration data for England and Scotland”Urban Studies45943–961
6.
BlaauboerM, 2010, “Family background, individual resources and the homeownership of couples and singles”Housing Studies25441–461
7.
BrownTKingP, 2005, “The power to choose: Effective choice and housing policy”European Journal of Housing Policy5 (1) 59–75
8.
CahillDJ, 2006Lifestyle Market Segmentation (Haworth Press, New York)
9.
CaoX(J)MokhtarianPLHandySL, 2009, “Examining the impacts of residential self-selection on travel behaviour: A focus on empirical findings”Transport Reviews29359–395
10.
ClarkWAVDeurlooMCDielemannFM, 2006, “Residential mobility and neighborhood outcomes”Housing Studies21323–342
11.
ClarkWAVDielemannFM, 1996Households and Housing. Choice and Outcomes in the Housing Market (Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ)
12.
ClarkWAVOnakaJL, 1983, “Life cycle and housing adjustment as explanations for residential mobility”Urban Studies2047–57
13.
ClarkWAVDeurlooMC, 2006, “Aging in place and over-consumption”Journal of Housing and Built Environment21257–270
14.
De GrootCMulderCHMantingD, 2011, “Intentions to move and actual moving behaviour in The Netherlands”Housing Studies26307–328
15.
DielemanFM, 2001, “Modeling residential mobility: A review of recent trends in research”Journal of Housing and the Built Environment16249–265
16.
ErmischJFJenkinsSP, 1999, “Retirement and housing in later life: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey”Labour Economics6311–333
17.
EvansAUnsworthR, 2012, “Housing densities and consumer choice”Urban Studies491163–1177
18.
FeijtenP, 2005, “Union dissolution, unemployment and moving out of homeownership”European Sociological Review2159–71
19.
GalsterG, 2001, “On the nature of neighbourhood”Urban Studies382111–2124
20.
GerstorfDRamNGoebelJSchuppJLindenbergerUWagnerGG, 2010, “Where people live and die makes a difference: Individual and geographic disparities in well-being progression at the end of life”Psychology and Aging25661–676
21.
HendershottPHOngRWoodGAFlatauP, 2009, “Marital history and home ownership: Evidence from Australia”Journal of Housing Economics1813–24
22.
HowiePMurphySMWicksJ, 2010, “An application of a stated preference method to value urban amenities”Urban Studies42235–256
23.
LiS-MWuF, 2004, “Contextualizing residential mobility and housing choice: Evidence from urban China”Environment and Planning A361–6
24.
LundH, 2006, “Reasons for living in a transit-oriented development, and associated transit use”Journal of the American Planning Association72357–366
25.
MokhtarianPLCaoX, 2008, Examining the impacts of residential self-selection on travel behavior: A focus on methodologiesTransportation Research B42204–228
26.
MulderCHLausterNT, 2010, “Housing and family: An introduction”Housing Studies25433–440
27.
MyersDGearinE, 2001, “Current preferences and future demand for denser residential environments”Housing Policy Debate12 (4) 633–659
28.
OlaruDSmithBTaplinJHE, 2011, “Residential location and transit-oriented development in a new rail corridor”Transportation Research A45219–237
29.
RabeBTaylorM, 2010, “Residential mobility, quality of the neighbourhood, and life course events”Journal of the Royal Statistical Society173531–555
30.
RahmanMM, 2010, “The Australian housing market-understanding the causes and effects of rising prices”Policy Studies31577–590
RossiPH, 1955Why Families Move: A Study of the Social Psychology of Urban Residential Mobility (Free Press, Glencoe, IL)
34.
ScheinerJKasperB, 2003, “Lifestyles, choice of housing location and daily mobility: The lifestyle approach in the context of spatial mobility and planning”International Social Science Journal55 (176) 319–332
35.
SchwanenTMokhtarianPL, 2005, “What if you live in the wrong neighborhood? The impact of residential neighborhood type dissonance on distance travelled”Transportation Research D10127–151
36.
StrömS, 2010, “Housing and first births in Sweden, 1972–2005”Housing Studies25509–526
37.
SwaitJ, 1994, “A structural equation model of latent segmentation and product choice for cross-sectional revealed preference data”Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services177–89
38.
TrainK, 2003Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
39.
Van WeeB, 2009, “Self-selection: A key to a better understanding of location choices, travel behaviour and transport externalities”Transport Reviews: A Transnational Transdisciplinary Journal29279–292
40.
VealAJ, 2001, “Leisure, culture, and lifestyle”Society and Leisure24359–376
41.
WadellPBhatCEluruNWangLPendyalaRM, 2007, “Modeling interdependence in household residence and workplace choices”Transportation Research Recordnumber 2003, 84–92
42.
WalkerJLLiJ, 2007, “Latent lifestyle preferences and household location decisions”Journal of Geographical Systems977–101
43.
YatesJ, 2001, “The rhetoric and reality of housing choice: The role of urban consolidation”Urban Policy and Research19491–527
