This paper focuses on the economic determinants that contribute to the formation of the prices of the real estate market of the city of Fortaleza (Ceará), based upon the hedonic or implicit prices theory. The model considered for the work investigates implicit prices in the curve of utility of an agent of demand segmented in two groups: direct consumer of the good house and the investor in properties, that it incorporates economical-financial additionally that measure the degree of risk and return in the formation of the hedonic prices. It is estimated the hedonic prices through segmentation by type of property taking into account several attributes distributed in the vectors of physical, location, economical and financial characteristics. The selected sample is formed by the real estate transactions occurred in the city (period from 1995 to 2003), accounting for 4.467 observations distributed among residential apartments, flats, urban lands and commercial offices.
urban real state market; hedonic prices; flats; office; Fortaleza
