This paper uses loan-level data from the residential mortgage books of four Irish credit institutions, as at December 2010. The focus of the paper, is to provide an overview of the structure and condition of these housing loan books. This includes a description of borrower categories, interest...

We provide novel estimates of the timing, magnitudes, and potential determinants of the start of the last housing boom across American neighborhoods and metropolitan areas (MSAs) using a rich new micro data set containing 23 million housing transactions in 94 metropolitan areas between 1993 and...

Hedonic Property Value (HPV) models generally consider socio-demographic factors as exogenous in the determination of housing values. We present a descriptive model that shows evidence that contradicts this maintained hypothesis in the HPV literature. Cross-sectional statistical analyses cannot...

This study draws from the redevelopment, real option, and urban spatial growth literatures to explore the spatial dynamics of the components of house prices. More specifically, the paper proposes that the capitalized value of the option to redevelop housing at the property level can be estimated...

Spanish Abstract: Los precios de la vivienda en Bogotá en el periodo 1995-2013 generaron un debate sobre la existencia de una burbuja inmobiliaria. Este artículo analiza los determinantes de la oferta y la demanda del sector, de los mercados asociados y de la velocidad de crecimiento de la...

In cities around the country, huge swaths of property in desirable locations house only empty warehouses, barely-used shipping facilities, and heavily subsidized industrial-age factories, often right across the street from high-end condos and office buildings. The reason is a widely-used, but...

The refinance shares reported by Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS), the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), and the National Mortgage News (NMN) have differed by up to 21 percentage points between 1990 and 2005. If a lender's refinance...

This paper primarily focuses on predicting housing price gradients in a Norwegian region with one dominating center. Spatial separation is represented by a function of the traveling distance from the city center in a traditional hedonic regression equation. Several functions are tested, and some...

Quality commercial properties differ in operating performance not only on physical characteristics but in type of ownership, management, and control. For 1996-2001 data on Atlanta apartments, a primary market for multiple types of investors, there is varying operating performance by ownership....

This paper analyzes urban-rural coordinated development in a region, where big city and large rural area coexist, and proposes some major institutional innovations. Our basic assumptions include: the existence of large rural area cannot be changed in the short term; people's mobility will...