Estimating the Willingness to Pay the Residents of Residential Garden Apartment

Attention and protection of certain factors such as comfort, physical and mental health, clean environment, and leisure that are increasingly being deteriorated, are the main concerns of metropolitan and big city authorities all over the world. Due to increasing population in Iran and the formation of metropolises, most suitable spaces in large towns get more dense, and consequently, less space will be left for residential complexes. On the other hand, due to land shortage and overpopulation crisis and destruction of land and gardens for residential apartments and naturally, increase of pollution and lack of green space per capita, the idea of garden apartments is presented to show how nature can be combined with human environment. In this study, an overview of the basics of garden apartments using analytical – descriptive methods as well as CVM approach have been used to estimate the willingness in paying the residents of residential complexes. The collection of data is through the questionnaire. The results show that among the people interviewed about 89% people tend to reside in garden apartments, and 43% agree to pay the average housing price in the desired area and 32% agree to pay 150 dollars more than the average housing prices in the desired area and very small percentage of people are willing to pay more money.