Cash income is widely recognised as a deficient measure of income, as it takes no account of the contribution of net worth to consumption potential. Housing equity is a particularly important component of net worth. Comprehensive income measures incorporate housing equity by adding its...

This Productivity Commission staff working paper (by Matthew Forbes, Andrew Barker and Stewart Turner) was released March 2010. <p>Human capital theory supports the view that people with higher levels of education and lower incidences of chronic illness should have higher labour productivity....</p></p>

This article is a short introduction to the special issue. In this, we provide a brief commentary on the main papers and also set out why we have put this special issue on new directions together. Our aim has been to stimulate new thinking and ideas promoting new areas for future research in...

This study evaluates residential property as an institutional asset group in two European countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands). These are countries where housing is the main institutional property asset group, with institutional property portfolio allocations of over 52% and 50%...

This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression...

In this paper, newspaper adverts are used to investigate the effects of the deregulation of private renting in the UK. The paper contrasts newspaper adverts in 1988 (before deregulation took force) with 1992 for the market furnished sectors of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The methodological issues of...

In recent years responses to neoliberal urbanism and social injustice have been framed in terms of 'the right to the city', both by academics and social movements. This special issue presents case studies of housing struggles from around the globe that are framed within a right to the city...