The Relationship Between Household and Housing Characteristics in the Context of Sub-Housing Markets: The Case of Ankara

The housing market is a summation of sub-markets with intrinsic supply, demand and spatial dynamics of individuals and households within a similar socioeconomic structure. Throughout its history, Ankara has been the stage to the first examples of all types of housing supply and ownership status (tenure) and has become a metropolis that contains different sub-housing markets as a result of the initial implementations of housing policies. This article was authored in accordance with the current market supply research and household surveys conducted in Ankara as well as the findings obtained from the field survey data. In the article, firstly the general characteristics of the current housing market are discussed, based on evaluations on the numbers, types, sales and rent values, qualifications (age, size and number of rooms) of housing for sale and rent in 8 central districts of Ankara, including Alt？nda？, ？ankaya, Etimesgut, G？lba？？, Ke？i？ren, Mamak, Sincan and Yenimahalle, based on data on the housing market/sub-markets of the metropolitan city of Ankara obtained from 126,017 housing ad posting on the Hürriyet Real Estate website, between 16.12.2013 and 03.01.2014. Secondly, in these 8 central districts, using the data obtained from 534 household surveys with a sampling rate of 3.6‰, conducted between 10-26 February 2013, the relationship between the characteristics of the household and the characteristics of the housing use is discussed in the context of socio-demographic, socioeconomic and spatial characteristics. In this article, which deals with different sub-housing markets in terms of properties and relations of housing (supply direction) and user/households (demand direction), the supply-demand and spatial dynamics of the sub-housing markets of the metropolitan city of Ankara are revealed