Housing location choice and residential mobility in the context of residential satisfaction: The case of Bolu city

Residential satisfaction is related to the qualities of housing and neighbourhood, the accessibility ofthe household to different services and facilities, and economical opportunities and social networks. Morever,with the development of urbanization, the choice of housing location and the attitudes of the household inchoosing the location have become an important subject which is evaluated in the housing and real estatemarket. Housing location choice attitudes of the household, having different socio-economical and demographicstructures, play a significant role in the development of urban structure and urban area, and real estate market.The aim of this article is to empirically analyze the effective determinants (or factor) in the choice of housinglocation with respect to household mobility in the context of residential satisfaction in a medium-sized city. Inaccordance with this aim, housing location choice is estimated by the behavioural model and statistical (factor,regression and variant) analysis which were obtained by using the data set based on the questionnaires selectedby snowball households in the sample area of Bolu city. The results show that housing location choice orpreference changes in accordance with the socio-economical and demographic indicators of the household in terms of housing mobility in the spatial area of Bolu city. This change was determined to be effective of household the education, salary, the ownership of the property and the age of the head of the household. In conclusion, socio-economical and demographic factors are effective in housing location choice in the context of residential satisfaction in Turkey in general.