This text deals with the topic of housing shortage vs. residential vacancy – housing market intervention as a task of politics? At the beginning there will be some basic assertions on the relation of market vs. state, especially bearing in mind, the overall importance and social responsibility...

There are four major challenges for housing policy in the near and midterm future: First, rents in many German conurbations have been rising significantly faster than incomes over the last five years. Though it can rightly be argued, that the suggested policies of the new German federal...

The regional differences in the housing markets are enormous and will continue to exacerbate in the future. The main task for the housing policy is to take appropriate long term measures depending on the market structure. A central aspect of future housing policy is the site development....

In January–April 2014, 231,100 apartments with fl oorspace of 17.9m sq. meters which amounts to 127% on the respective period of 2013. In Q1 2014, the average actual cost of building of 1 sq. meter of residential housing rose by 12.52% as compared to Q1 2013 and amounted to Rb 39,290. The...

In this paper, we build the rationale of the financial intermediate's decision of making loans to potential home buyers over an infinite time horizon. In the first period "good" borrowers with stable future income flows receive loans and buy homes. In later periods, the intermediate securitizes...

In January 2013, entities of all the forms of ownership built 45,800 new apartments with the total floor space of 3.58m sq. meters or 114.7% as compared to January 2012. In January, individual developers commissioned 1,585m sq. meters of housing which is 6.2% more than in January 2012.

The aim of this publication is the analysis of the main theoretical and empirical models for pricing of financial and non financial assets including models for bubbles determining indices and methods which allow identifying a bubble on financial and non financial assets markets well as...

The aim of this publication is the analysis of the main theoretical and empirical models for pricing of financial and non financial assets including models for bubbles determining indices and methods which allow identifying a bubble on financial and non financial assets markets well as...

We analyse the determinants of house prices in the primary and secondary market of 17 largest cities in Poland during the 2002-2013 period. We find that prices are driven by economic fundamentals, such as income growth or rise in employment. Prices in the secondary market react to increases in...

The Narodowy Bank Polski organized during November 14-15, 2013 an international workshop to discuss current issues in the field of real estate analysis from the central bank's point of view. The development of residential real estate prices as well as commercial real estate prices and real...