Emerging Asia has witnessed rapid growth of private housing and market-based housing finance in the past decade; nevertheless, market development has been uneven across countries. There is evidence that, in those economies with more flexible housing finance markets, house prices are more responsive to...

Thailand's housing loan market has been growing since 2006. At the same time, retail financial services have become more widely available.Thailand has also seen increasingly fierce competition among mortgage lenders. For example, in May 2010 the Government Housing Bank launched housing loans for...

Eine nachhaltige Wohnungsbaufinanzierung für untere Einkommensgruppen zu realisieren, ist für eine wachsende Anzahl von Ländern weltweit ein fast unerreichbares Ziel und stellt deshalb eine große Herausforderung dar. Scheitern diesbezügliche staatliche Programme, so kann das verheerende...