Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting

The ratio of public area in Taiwan's multi-family residential is gradually increasing, and the items of public facilities are becoming more and more diversified. Most researches only classify them, however, it is rarely discussed how the connotation and diversity of public facilities affect residential transaction prices? This study intends to classify the public facilities in 22 multi-families residential near the Zhongke Shopping Plaza in Xitun District, Taichung City and give them diversity scores. The study uses hierarchical linear model for analysis, residential price as the dependent variable, diversity of public facilities scores as the independent variable of group-level, and public area, private area, age and floor as independent variables of individual-level. The empirical results found that floor, public area, and private area have positive and significant influence on residential transaction prices; when controlling the influence of individual-level explanatory variables on residential transaction prices, the diversity of public facilities at the group-level has a positive effect on the average residential transaction price of residential buildings.