Wohnen wird – zumindest in einigen Städten – zum Luxusgut, bezahlbarer Wohnraum zur Mangelware. Die Wohnungsbaupolitik muss drastisch verändert werden. Sollte der soziale Wohnungsbau ausgebaut, die Mietpreisbremse verschärft werden oder – im Gegenteil – auf beides weitgehend...

This paper analyses the highly under-researched German residential real estate market. Quality- and spatial-adjusted price and liquidity indices are calculated separately for the investment and rental market on a regional basis. Applying the “Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM)” clustering...

Residential choice does not only depend on properties of the dwelling, neighbourhood amenities and affordability, but is also affected by the population composition within a neighbourhood. All these attributes are capitalised in the house price. Empirically, it is not easy to disentangle the...

The study examined the relationships between residents' socioeconomic characteristics and the housing quality standard in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Systematic sampling technique was used to select 198 household heads for questionnaire administration. The findings revealed that socioeconomic factors are...

The objective of this research is to analyse the factors that have influenced on housing market in Spain after the beginning of the financial crisis. To this end, this investigation has used a fixed effect data panel covering from 2008 to 2016 for 17 Spanish regions, which has taken into...

We analyse the determinants of prices of flats that are bought on the primary (new construction) and secondary markets (existing stock) in the 17 largest cities in Poland during the 2002–2015 period. We find that prices are driven by economic fundamentals, such as income growth and drop in the...

Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 16/2016 kommentiert Barbara Hendricks, Bundesministerin für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit, die aktuelle Situation und stellt das »Bündnis für bezahlbares Wohnen und Bauen« vor.

Wie überall in Deutschland zieht es auch in Sachsen die Bevölkerung in die Städte. Entsprechend steigen die Kaufpreise für Wohnimmobilien – auch im näheren Umland zu den Großstädten. Allerdings ist die Wohnkostenbelastung in Sachsen im Vergleich zu anderen Regionen Deutschlands immer...