This dissertation is primarily focused in to the housing prices of UK housing market and the lending situation during the financial turmoil. Giving more emphasize in the housing prices, this dissertation thoroughly examines the housing boom and bust of the UK housing market keeping into mind...

Individual sales prices and local vacancy rates in the housing market pose a natural analogy to the wage curve, a popular concept in labor economics that describes how individual wages decrease with higher local unemployment. While housing search and matching models and housing externalities...

Demographic and institutional elements as important drivers of the housing market should not be neglected since it is not only financial and monetary elements that matter in the case of the housing market. In this context, one relationship, which still remains unclear, is the relationship...