data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) to analyse the household's wealth composition and … accumulation process in the euro area. To quantify the size of the housing wealth and its potential to enhance existing and future … amount of home equity that is expected to be released over a 10-year period through regular monthly mortgage payments. We …

) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a … in recent years, due partly to the fact that tax breaks for housing purchase, reforms in the housing loan market since … the early 2000s, and expansionary monetary policy enabled Japanese households to purchase housing at a younger age than …

, Ireland and Italy have (lower) medium ERS conditions, while Germany has unfavourable conditions. An extrapolation to the EU as …

measured by property and mortgage market indicators. Comparing overall need and feasibility index values we find that market … conditions, the opposite applies for Germany and Ireland. Hungary and Italy lie in between. …

This paper examines the state of reverse mortgage markets in selected countries around the world and considers the …