The current global trend of increased migration influences housing requirements, specifically affordability and location flexibility. These requirements can be articulated by different housing solutions that are formulated in this paper. Despite the fact that numerous researchers have been...

Homeowners associations (HOAs) and other local private governments are expanding in number both in the United States and around the world. Local private governments are also expanding in scope, with many offering private security and a few even offering services such as day care, schools, and...

This paper documents uniformity in real estate commission rates offered to buyers' agents using 653,475 residential listings in eastern Massachusetts from 1998–2011. Properties listed with lower commission rates experience less favorable transaction outcomes: they are 5 percent less likely to...

In January-February 2013, 83,925 MHL for the total amount of Rb132.94bn were extended which is 28.24% more in monetary terms than in January-February 2012. As of March 1, 2013, the outstanding debt on MHL amounted to Rb2.05 trillion having exceeded by 36.71% the respective debt as of March 1,...

The tenure decision upon whether to buy or to rent accommodation has long-term consequences for households' financial wellbeing that influence macroeconomic development and stability when the cumulative effects of individual decisions are aggregated across populations. The author explains how...

Over three quarters of 2015, 461,232 mortgage loans (ML) totaling Rb 761.8bn were originated which is below the volume of loans extended for the corresponding period of 2014 in monetary terms down 38% and in numerical terms down 35%. As of 1 October 2015, the share of ruble ML in the volume of...

Since the turn of the year to 1 September 2015, 396,198 mortgage loans (ML) totaling Rb 653.25 bn were originated. This is below the volume of loans extended for the corresponding period of 2014 in numerical terms (by 36.24%) and in monetary terms (by 39.14%), the volume of residual debt of ML...

This article provides the in-sample estimation and evaluates the out-of-sample conditional mean and volatility forecast performance of the conventional Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH), Asymmetric Power Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (APARCH) and...

In January-August 2015, 40.01 million m sq. of housing was constructed up 9.25% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. Average actual construction cost of a square meter of residential housing in H1 2015 down 9.83% against H2 2014 and amounted to Rb39.44 and ration between...