Firstly, this paper selects 7 factors such as service facility, natural
environment, traffic situation and location condition
to evaluate Location Advantage Value of Residential
Environment (LAVRE) in the urban and suburban Beijing. Secondly, it constructs a LAVRE model to evaluate LAVRE of various regions in Beijing and analyze its spatial characteristics. Thirdly, based on data of average prices of lots of
commercial housings, this paper sets up GIS-based spatial distribution of prices to analyze spatial relationship between LAVRE and housing prices, and the relationship between LAVRE and residential location selecting behaviors. Lastly, it draws conclusions as follows:
1) Integrated LAVRE has a trend of decreasing from the center of the city to its periphery, and shows the feature of circle configuration. This trend is similar to the spatial change of the commercial housing prices, which shows a fact that the spatial distribution of commercial housing prices is directly influenced by the residential environment.
2) In a whole, the difference of commercial housing prices between north and south areas is similar to that of LAVRE.3) Spatial preferences of residential location selecting are affected by the location advantage of residential environment. That is, the north area where LAVRE is relatively high is the concentrated area of residential location selecting, and the rate of residents who choose the south area, where LAVRE is low relatively, is lower than other areas.