Proposed Solutions to Face the Problem of High Prices of Land and Real Estate of Kirkuk
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The study of urban land values (real estate) within cities did not receive similar attention in geographical studies to some extent, and geographical treatments of this subject were limited to studying it within the study of Iraqi cities as part of the structure of the city, and its basic functions, especially in cities that are predominantly residential.
Therefore, the study of the values of urban land prices is considered one of the geographical studies that deserve attention and orientation towards it. In this study, as the hypothesis was formulated by the overlap of several factors that led to a significant rise in the prices of residential land in the past two decades, as commercial speculation is one of those factors, in addition to the implications of that according to the absence of government planning in terms of overstepping the limits of the basic design and overtaking agricultural land. To achieve the objectives of the study, several approaches were used, the most important of which was the spatial analysis approach. The study was also based on the applied approach in studying the factors affecting the variation in land values, the most prominent obstacles facing them in the future, and the development of proposed solutions to solve them.
The study concluded that (70%) agreed on the strength of the state’s influence in its control over land prices and control over real estate brokers, and its absence leaves a gap and imbalance in the real estate market, and this is sufficient proof of citizens’ conviction of the need for state intervention and imposing its full sovereignty in order to save the real estate situation from collapse. Since the absence of state authority after the year (2003 AD), administrative corruption, and the weakness of the role of municipal oversight, and then the citizen’s feeling that there is no oversight that obliges him to use the type of use, had a major role in changing the uses of the land, and the vertical building pattern is one of the most prominent solutions agreed upon by citizens and a factor involved in the development of the city and the large participation in reducing the price of the land and solving the housing crisis due to its potential to contain the largest number of families, as the response rate reached about (73%) of the size of the studied sample.
Accordingly, the study suggests regulating land prices and rents by the state and the concerned authorities and putting an end to speculators in the real estate market, as well as following a (five-year) housing policy to provide adequate housing for the population according to accurate statistical methods and scientific planning standards.
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