Price Dispersion refers to the situation in which two identical commodities sell for different prices at the same point in time and at the same location, a concept related to the law of one price and arbitrage pricing. In housing markets, for price dispersion to exist, the variance in house prices cannot be attributed completely to any remaining heterogeneity between two very similar house located very near each other. Any unexplainable price variation is then called price dispersion.
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