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Governments around the world utilize various types of subsidies in order to counter problems of housing shortages and affordability concerns. Reduced interest rate or alternative investments of construction loans are examples of subsidy policies on the supply side that are intended to offset...

My objective in this paper is to estimate different depreciation rates of house prices depending on the level of maintenance of the property and the location of the property. I do this by supplementing transaction price data with owner information about level of maintenance. The result indicates...

In the academic literature about construction of housing price indexes, administrative geographic areas are mostly used. Very rarely discusses and analyzes the question what is the optimal regional division from a statistical point of view as well as a practical point of view. In the design of...

Given the large increase in Swedish house prices and households_ indebtedness since the 1990s, it is important to study the seemingly strong relationship between house prices and bank lending. Credit expansion may increase house prices and higher house prices increases the wealth and, thereby,...

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Securitized real estate shares constitute an important investment vehicle for institutional investors and households. Investors both hold real estate shares directly or indirectly through for instance real estate mutual funds as well as real estate ETFs. Therefore it is interesting to study the...

This paper proposes a price index construction methodology that can increase the quality of price index data for condominiums in Sweden. Currently, officially published market price indexes for condominiums and houses in Sweden suffer from a number of shortcomings. Notably they do not control...

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