We present a modified open monocentric city model that assumes that land is available for conversion into new housing throughout the city. The model predicts that positive local income shocks (i) increase the city’s share of multi-family housing in new construction and (ii) lead to the...

In January–February 2015, 155,900 apartments were commissioned and their total fl oorspace of 12.3m sq. meters exceeded by 40.6% the result of January–February 2014. According to the data of the Rosreestr, in 2014 the volume of registered titles to land plots (6735253 registration...

In spite of a growing recognition of the importance of supply conditions for the level and volatility of house prices, empirical work on housing supply outside the US is scarce. This paper considers various measures of housing supply in the Netherlands, where real house prices have roughly...

The volume of mortgage housing loans extended within 11 months of 2013 exceeded by 17.38% and 29.51% the respective index of 2012 as regards the number and monetary value, respectively, having amounted to Rb 1175.0bn. The average weighted rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month fell from...

In 2013, growth in mortgage housing lending continued. In 2013, the volume of the extended mortgage housing loans (Rb 1,354 trillion) exceeded by 31.17% that of 2012. The quality of the portfolio of mortgage housing loans (MHL) kept getting worse: in 2013 the overdue debt fell to Rb 39.5bn with...

In 2014, the volume of housing mortgage lending (HML) in the Russian Federation continued to grow despite the development of crisis phenomena in the Russian economy. The volume of housing mortgage credits (HMC) allotted in 2014 (Rb 1.762 trillion) was 30.18% above the same index for 2013, while...

Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands have increased steadily and considerably. In this paper we study the effect of this development on the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We use the data of the Dutch socio-economic panel for...

In spite of a growing recognition of the importance of supply conditions for the level and volatility of house prices, empirical work on housing supply outside the US is scarce. This paper considers various measures of housing supply in the Netherlands, where real house prices have roughly...

Even though economic models have been relatively successful in explaining the long run patterns of house prices, they have more difficulties in explaining short run developments of the housing markets. However, the fact that during such 'bubbles' the spatial pattern of house prices, which can...