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Minha Casa Minha Vida, nosso crescimento : onde fica política habitacional?

Krause, Cleandro; Balbim, Renato; Lima Neto, Vicente Correia - 2013

National Housing Plan (PlanHab). In this paper we show that MCMV is not being primarily guided by the housing deficit, a … crucial concern in PlanHab. Rather, our analysis suggests that MCMV responds to strategies aimed at Brazil’s economic growth …Created in 2009 by the federal government, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) is the largest housing policy in Brazil. Since …

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Home owning motivation in Malaysia

Tan, Teck Hong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The residential property industry, which had grown rapidly in the 1980s, however, encountered overhang problems recently. Overhang of residential units has been getting worse and therefore, precautionary measures must be taken by the housing developers before it leads to a property glut. In...

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A rental-equivalence index for owner-occupied housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

Kurz, Claudia; Hoffmann, Johannes - 2004

In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause...

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Seasonality in house prices

Kajuth, Florian; Schmidt, Tobias - 2011

The contribution of this paper is to offer a rationale for the observed seasonal pattern in house prices. We first document seasonality in house prices for the US and the UK using formal statistical tests and illustrate its quantitative importance. In the second part of the paper we employ a...

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The Market Value of Energy Efficiency in Buildings and the Mode of Tenure

Michelsen, Claus; Kholodilin, Konstantin - 2015

Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossile fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock....

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Determinants of house price dynamics. What can we learn from search engine data?

Oestmann, Marco; Bennöhr, Lars - 2015

There is a broad literature on determinants of house prices, which received increasing attention in the aftermath of the subprime crisis. Additional to macroeconomic standard variables, there might be other hard to measure or even unobservable factors influencing real estate price dynamics....

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Housing cycles in Switzerland: A time-varying approach

Drechsel, Dirk - 2015

In light of the strong increase of house prices in Switzerland, we analyze the effects of mortgage rate shocks, changes in the interplay between housing demand and supply and GDP growth on house prices for the time period 1981- 2014. We employ Bayesian time-varying coefficients vector...

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Housing policies for Asia: A theoretical analysis by use of a demand and supply model

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Helble, Matthias; Aizawa, Toshiaki - 2015

The main objective of this paper is to give an overview of the most commonly used housing policies and to illustrate their economic impact. To facilitate the analysis, we first introduce a simple two-period housing demand model for owner-occupied houses and rental houses. We then add a standard...

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Evaluation of Urban Improvement on the Islands of the Venice Lagoon: A Spatially-Distributed Hedonic-Hierarchical Approach

Fassio, Anita; Breil, Margaretha; Giupponi, Carlo; … - 2004

This paper presents a model for the evaluation of environmental and urban improvements on the islands of the Venetian lagoon. The model simulates the changes in residential real estate values using a value function integrated in a geographical database which provides spatial distributions of...

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How mortgage finance affects the urban landscape

Chan, Sewin; Haughwout, Andrew; Tracy, Joseph - 2015

This chapter considers the structure of mortgage finance in the U.S., and its role in shaping patterns of homeownership, the nature of the housing stock, and the organization of residential activity. We start by providing some background on the design features of mortgage contracts that...

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