The number of new dwellings built in Spain more than doubled between 1997 and 2004. Provisional estimates indicate that the figure might currently be over 800,000. Strikingly, this impressive response of supply to demand has not put a brake on housing prices, which have also doubled in real...

Analysis of the real estate sector in Estonia in recent years: multifactor housing demand and housing supply constraints. Was the price right and is it now? What next?

The paper summarises UK house price developments since the mid-1990s and reviews evidence of demand and supply factors that have contributed to the house price boom. Strong growth in UK house prices since 1997 is partly explained by rising average incomes and falls in mortgage interest rates....