Using data on house sales and inventories of unsold houses, this paper shows that changes in sales volume are largely explained by changes in the frequency at which houses are put up for sale rather than changes in the length of time taken to sell them. Thus the decision to move house is key to...

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...

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...

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.

An efficient housing market is of critical importance for individual welfare and for a well-functioning economy. We test the efficiency of this market by estimating the factors that determine both the long-run and the dynamic paths of regional house prices. Our tests use a new quarterly regional...