Journal of European Real Estate Research: Volume 7 Issue 3

Housing subsidies and taxation in six EU countries: Trends, structures and recent measures in the light of the global financial crisis

Robert Wieser, Alexis Mundt

This paper aims to examine the main characteristics of the housing taxation and subsidy systems in six European Union countries. The structure of this support over the past two…

The role of house price indices in managing the integration of finance and housing markets in the European Union

Richard Grover, Christine Grover

The article aims to examine why residential property price indices (RPPI) are important, particularly in the European Union (EU) with its highly integrated financial system and…

Strategic sequencing behavior among owner-occupiers: The role played by sell-first movers in a housing recovery

André Kallåk Anundsen, Erling Røed Larsen

This article aims to study the dual search problem using data on the Norwegian housing market during the financial crisis of 2008 and begin the detailed mapping of the elements in…

Losses on Dutch residential mortgage insurances

M.K. Francke, F.P.W. Schilder

This paper aims to study the data on losses on mortgage insurance in the Dutch housing market to find the key drivers of the probability of loss. In 2013, 25 per cent of all Dutch…

Negative equity in Ireland: estimates using loan-level data

David Duffy, Niall O’Hanlon

This paper aims to, using a unique loan-level data set, show the extent to which negative equity in Ireland is concentrated in younger age groups. The sharp decline in house…

Regional house price cycles in the UK, 1978-2012: a Markov switching VAR

Rosen Azad Chowdhury, Duncan Maclennan

This paper aims to use Markov switching vector auto regression (MSVAR) methods to examine UK house price cycles in UK regions at NUTS1 level. There is extensive literature on UK…

Introduction: European housing markets, economics and finance – after the crisis

Kenneth Gibb, Alex Marsh