The application of information technology to finance, or "fintech," is expected to revolutionize many aspects of borrowing and lending in the future, but technology has been reshaping consumer and mortgage lending for many years. During the 1990s, computerization allowed mortgage lenders to...

Home appraisals are produced for millions of residential mortgage transactions each year, but appraised values are rarely below the purchase contract price: Some 30% of appraisals in our sample are exactly at the home price (with less than 10% of them below it). We lay out a basic theoretical...

This paper analyzes whether predominantly non-listed corporations in the residential property industry systematically adjust their capital structure to changing financing requirements. Since previous research almost exclusively focused on listed companies, little is known about the...

In this article, the authors examine residential real estate taxation in some European countries. The authors outline the types of direct and indirect real estate taxes, present statistical data to demonstrate the structure of and tax yield and offer conclusions regarding the impact of tax...

Using the National Survey of Mortgage Originations, we document that borrowers who are more financially sophisticated (measured by their self-reported understanding of the mortgage process) and more exposed to competition (measured by the number of lenders they considered) pay lower mortgage...

Over the years, real estate financing has been a preserve for mortgage financing companies. With time, commercial banks have started engaging in mortgage financing. With the rising non-performing loans among Kenyan banks, mortgages have seen as a safer bet to improve the loan portfolio...

In Q2 2015, housing mortgage loans (HML) totaling to Rb 242.53bn were originated which was 44.23% lower than the same index for Q2 2014. The volume of residual debt on HML as of 1 July 2015 constituted Rb 3.608 trillion. The share the ruble stale debt on HML in the residual debt came to 0.98% as...

Preleasing of to-be-built commercial real estate space is a pervasive worldwide practice. Although such preleasing is an extensive and significant activity, it has not received adequate attention in the real estate economics and finance literature. Using an equilibrium micro-economic agency...

In 2014, the volume of housing mortgage lending (HML) in the Russian Federation continued to grow despite the development of crisis phenomena in the Russian economy. The volume of housing mortgage credits (HMC) allotted in 2014 (Rb 1.762 trillion) was 30.18% above the same index for 2013, while...

After emerging from the U.S. real estate and financial markets, financial crisis has gradually become global. Due to both primary and secondary mortgage market problems in the U.S. are accepted as the essential reasons of the current crisis, it is believed that financial markets and real estate...