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The challenges of the housing economy : an international perspective / edited by Colin Jones, Michael White, Neil Dunse.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Real estate issues (Oxford, England)
- Real estate issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Housing--Prices--Congresses.
- Housing.
- Real estate business--Congresses.
- Real estate business.
- Real property--Ownership--Congresses.
- Real property.
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Congresses.
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
- Housing policy--Congresses.
- Housing policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This timely book addresses key challenges faced by policy makers and the house-building industry in a post-credit crunch world. It examines the implications for households, the housing market, the economy, as well as for government's policy choices. Challenges of the Housing Economy: an international perspective brings together experts from around the world to examine recent housing market trends. The contributions reveal common long-term trends in housing markets worldwide. Despite differences in supply conditions and the role of planning, there is a trend toward rising house prices
- Contents:
- Contributors
- Glossary
- Introduction : the housing economy and the credit crunch
- The housing boom, the bust and US housing policy
- Housing bubbles and foreclosures that follow : the case of Las Vegas
- Unemployment risk, homeownership, and housing wealth : lessons from the bubble
- The changing nature of household demand and housing market trends in China
- The structural sustainability of home ownership in Australia
- Impacts on wealth and debt of changes in the Danish financial framework over a housing cycle
- Market stability, housing finance, and home ownership in Germany
- The responsiveness of new supply to house prices : a perspective from the Spanish housing market
- The UK housing market cycle and the role of planning : the policy challenge following the financial crisis
- Developments in the role of social housing in Europe
- Delivering affordable housing in the UK
- The UK private rented sector as a source of affordable accommodation
- Conclusions: the challenges ahead
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- "The chapters of this book are selected from papers presented at a symposium organised by the editors and generously funded by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and held in September 2010 in Edinburgh."--Acknowledgement.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613654120
- 9781280677199
- 1280677198
- 9781118280836
- 1118280830
- 9781118280829
- 1118280822
- 9781118280843
- 1118280849
- OCLC:
- 784137202
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