This paper investigates the development of house prices in Copenhagen in the period 1994-2013, while paying special attention to the heterogeneous impact of the boom and bust periods along the dimensions of housing type (single vs multifamily housing), geography and quality. To allow for price...

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...

This chapter provides a detailed discussion of the evidence on housing and mortgage lending discrimination, as well as the potential impacts of such discrimination on minority outcomes like homeownership and neighborhood environment. The paper begins by discussing conceptual issues surrounding...

At the time when at least two-thirds of the US states have already mandated some form of seller's property condition disclosure statement and there is a movement in this direction nationally, this paper examines the impact of seller's property condition disclosure law on the residential real...

Since 2004, ten U.S. states have enacted laws that mandate real estate brokers to provide real estate consumers with a minimum level of services. The federal government and the academic literature suggest that such state laws are a result of anti-competitive industry collusion, and serve no...

The volume of mortgage housing loans extended within 11 months of 2013 exceeded by 17.38% and 29.51% the respective index of 2012 as regards the number and monetary value, respectively, having amounted to Rb 1175.0bn. The average weighted rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month fell from...

In 2013, growth in mortgage housing lending continued. In 2013, the volume of the extended mortgage housing loans (Rb 1,354 trillion) exceeded by 31.17% that of 2012. The quality of the portfolio of mortgage housing loans (MHL) kept getting worse: in 2013 the overdue debt fell to Rb 39.5bn with...

In 2014, the volume of housing mortgage lending (HML) in the Russian Federation continued to grow despite the development of crisis phenomena in the Russian economy. The volume of housing mortgage credits (HMC) allotted in 2014 (Rb 1.762 trillion) was 30.18% above the same index for 2013, while...

Во 2 кв. 2014 г. рост ипотечного кредитования продолжился. Объем ИЖК, предоставленных за апрель-июнь текущего года, составил 434,8 млрд руб., что на 37,87% превышает объем...