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By combining fresh estimates of housing supply and prices with recent long-term projections for their fundamental …, streamlining land-use governance and easing rental control can help unlock housing supply, make housing markets more efficient and …
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This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2005-2015, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in...
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With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions … Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust system for house prices, housing supply and subprime lending. The model … accounts for regional differences in supply elasticities that are determined by local variations in topographical and …
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House prices have increased significantly in Canada over the past decade, driving household debt and residential construction activity to historical highs. Although macro-prudential tightening has slowed the pace of household borrowing in the last few years, house prices have continued to trend...
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results confirm that house prices are determined by numerous demand and supply factors, including income, demographics … housing supply to demand could also ease price pressures. …
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their size, state and neighbourhood quality. Households choose the flat with the highest consumer surplus according to …
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Housing conditions in Belgium are among the best in OECD countries according to the Better Life Index, as dwellings are of high quality and large, and housing costs are average. However, the steep increase in house prices since 2003 has put market access for first-time buyers under pressure....
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Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of …
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The most frequent mortgage loans in the US behave according to nominal interest rates with level loan payments (NRMs), like Fixed Rate Mortgages (FRMs) or Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs). We use a model to show that the tilt effect, an increase of real payments in the early years of the...
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