purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the interrelationships between mortgage liquidity and housing affordability in …Purpose – The downturn in the residential housing market in Northern Ireland (NI) has been the most pronounced of any … coupled with a more prudent lending culture has ensured that housing affordability remains a primary policy concern. The …

of measuring quality in housing, where housing may be described by a vector of measured characteristics. Undertakes a …Reviews the development of Irish housing policy from the eighteenth century to the present. Emphasizes the importance … the various housing characteristics using a hedonic model, from which a set of implicit or “hedonic” prices emerges …

specifically affecting the quality of Hong Kong public housing, which has long been criticized as having poor quality performance …. This paper aims to identify the factors affecting the quality outcomes of public housing projects. Design … then developed to determine how these identified factors affect the quality scores of public housing projects. Factor …

taking place in housing sector in India. The new changes suggest how housing affordability, quality and lifestyles reality is … housing’, the unbridled ‘market-defining’ of housing quality and lifestyles must be checked.  …’ of affordable housing standards - to articulate function of housing as a conceptualization of social reality in modern …

The implicit prices of housing characteristics concerning the physical structure, location, environment and the risk of … construction quality in China are examined in this paper. The hedonic price model with uncertainty of construction quality is … from low construction quality. An obvious political implication of this study is that further residential reform should be …

different bases. Reports the results of research work aiming to compare the quality and effectiveness of three housing projects … schemes is the housing quality measurement technique. This technique is used for measuring quality under widely different … housing standards. It is a way of assessing the environmental quality and hence evaluating the success or failure of a …

User Satisfaction Index for a particular kind of Social Program (MUSI‐SP), taking into consideration the example of a … of the beneficiaries of social programs, as well as its causes (program practices and perceived quality) and results … on the model for government services and nonprofit organizations of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) and a …

Lithuanian housing market. Originality/value – Although the research focused on Lithuania, the findings extend to global housing … be employed to improve monetary policy oversight, facilitate planning for infrastructure or social housing as a … countercyclical policy and mitigate risk for investors. What is more, a greater appreciation of Lithuania housing market can act as a …

Purpose – Rents are both a very important cost variable in the housing market, having large welfare and distributional … for Norway's capital, Oslo. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a unique dataset with 24,257 housing for rent … rent indices for Norway's capital, Oslo, over the period from 1970 to 2008. In addition to an aggregate index, they …

Purpose – The purpose of this study was – first, to find out how to evaluate affordability of housing in the Estonian … market and, second, to assess the regulatory framework decisions' impact on the housing market in Estonia. Design …/methodology/approach – This article seeks answers to how to define housing affordability for the Estonian housing market. It also describes the …