Customer behavior in housing features and service quality: The case of residents in Ho Chi Minh City

Vo Hoang Bac *

* Correspondence: Vo Hoang Bac (email: bacvh@vhu.edu.vn)

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Received: 05 Mar 2017
Revised: 03 Apr 2018
Accepted: 03 Apr 2018
Published: 29 May 2018
DOI: 10.58810/vhujs.6.1.2018.6126
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Vo, . . H. B. (2018). Customer behavior in housing features and service quality: The case of residents in Ho Chi Minh City. Van Hien University Journal of Science 6(1), 69-77.
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Volume 6 - Issue 1 (2018)
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Psycology

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Abstract

In the real estate sector, buying a house is one of the most important economic decisions that people make, and it requires the buyer to deeply collect information regarding to housing features. In an effort to provide a better understanding of customer behavior in buying a house, this study investigated the roles of housing features and housing service quality on a customer behavior. It also examined the role of housing features and housing service quality on customer service accept- ance. Using the CFA & SEM analyses of 305 respondents who had house buying transactions in the residential areas in the Ho Chi Minh City, the research findings indicated that housing features and housing service quality had the positive relationship with customer’s behavior and with customer service acceptance.
Keywords: housing features, housing service quality, customer behavior, customer service ac- ceptance, residential parks.

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