The article is devoted to the role of the state in the housing market in Russia. The main role of the Government is to develop a sustainable and efficient housing market and to ensure the access of households to affordable decent housing. To achieve this goal by developing mortgage market the...

The article discusses the relatively large share of owner-occupied housing in the housing stock in selected European countries with relatively low per capita income and describes the underlying causes of this phenomenon. We identify the economic implications of the growing number of...

This paper presents a simple disequilibrium model in the primary housing market, calibrated to the Warsaw market. Our aim is to point out that the primary housing market, due to the long construction process is always in disequilibrium, which has important policy implications. We discuss the...

Poland underwent a quick transition of the economy, but its housing market and housing policy did not change quick enough. The economic growth that followed the EU accession lead to a rising housing demand, which was fuelled by quite cheap FX denominated mortgages. Those allowed many households...