This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost...

Law, economics and finance issues in Singapore’s housing development board flats -- Internalization of environmental externality in dwellings: review of court cases in Hong Kong in the past two decades -- The institutional analysis of fittings in residential units -- Asymmetric information and...

Introduction -- The Home-Ownership Allowance and Residential Real Estate Prices -- The Tenancy Law Reform Act of 2001 and the Risk Perception of Residential Real Estate Investments -- The Municipal Trade Tax Multiplier and Office Purchase Prices and Rents -- Summary, Practical Implications, and...

The current financial crisis started from the US real estate market and after, though the increase of risk premium requested by investors and due to the lack of liquidity of all financial markets, it became a world financial crisis. A detailed analysis during the crisis focuses attention on...

An indepth look at the origins and development of the current financial crisis, from an economist and Washington insider. Jarsulic explains how a wide array of financial institutions, including mortgage banks, commercial banks, and investment banks created a credit bubble that supported nonprime...