Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue “New Insights into the Green Building Market” aims to stimulate debate and articles concerning the recent changes in the real estate markets, which are positively and surprisingly contributing, as co-benefits of the so-called Green Building Market Price Premium, to the mitigation and solving of climate change and of the planet’s consequent global warming problems.

Tested and consolidated, as well as experimental and highly innovative approaches and tools are all welcome in order to fully valorize the great opportunity presented by Green Building Market Price Premium, alongside other premia deriving from brand new green buildings and ecological retrofitting strategies. By extension, these efforts will help to mitigate and solve the tragedy of the planet’s current climate change.

Indicative themes

Indicative themes, pivotal research fields, approaches, and tools include but are not limited to the following:

• Energy/environment and construction, settlement management, and real estate sectors;
• Climate change and construction, settlement management, and real estate sectors;
• Green building as a solution measure;
• Sustainability measure co-benefits taxonomy;
• Real estate market analysis, heuristic descriptions, empirical pace, and GIS;
• Real estate market and rDBMS;
• Spatial statistics and geographic models;
• Post-pandemic real estate market;
• Post-pandemic reuse of constructions materials;
• The first signals of the incipient real estate market price premium;
• Literature review on real estate market price premium;
• Real estate market price premium as a co-benefit of climate policies;
• Definition of co-benefit total economic or complex (= ecological - economic) value;
• Comprehensive multi-criteria approaches to define the complex ecological–economic value of the total number of co-benefits deriving from to climate policies and complementary or alternative climate measures;
• Comprehensive multi-criteria approaches to choose from for climate policies and measures;
• Methods and tools for a complex valuation (non-market, indirect, impalpable, intangible benefits) of climate measures, including both stated (contingent valuation, conjoint choice analysis, etc.) and expressed (hedonic regressions, travel cost method, etc.) preferences, value and benefit transfers, ecological effectiveness and related costs, etc.;
• Real estate market price premium regarding the basic appraisal system approach (ASA);
• Real estate market price premium regarding the basic market comparison approach (MCA);
• Real estate market price premium regarding the classic multiple regression analysis (MRA);
• Real estate market price premium and further tools regarding spatial statistics, geographically weighed regression, geo-additive models, penalized spline-smoothing semiparametric method, etc.;
• Real estate market price premium for building energy retrofit;
• Real estate market price premium for cultural heritage conservation and valorization;
• Real estate market price premium regarding generalization at the ward, district, city, and region level; and
• Other approaches and tools.

Prof. Dr. Domenico Enrico Massimo
Dr. Mariangela Musolino
Dr. Alessandro Malerba
Dr. Carlo Bernardo
Guest Editors

• climate change and global warming
• climate change mitigation and solution
• green building as a solution measure
• sustainability measure in building co-benefits
• co-benefit taxonomy
• co-benefit appraisal and valuation framework
• premia in green building measures
• energy technicalities
• emission ecology
• price market
• organicity/toxic-free health
• premium in green real estate market
• real estate market analysis
• real estate market heuristic descriptions
• empirical space
• GIS
• market price premium
• price premium apprais-al
• multiple regression analysis (MRA)
• semiparametric method
• semiparametric regression
• penalized spline
• geo-additive models
• appraisal system approach
• market comparison approach