This paperinvestigates the duration of housing construction projects in the Netherlands. We utilize comprehensive data from the Dutch Land Registry for the period 2013-2022 to investigate the importance of municipal land ownership, building plot price changes, construction costs, development...

Real construction volume is expected to decline for the fifth year in a row: A decline of nearly four percent is expected for 2024 and it should fall by almost one percent in 2025. However, the construction industry may manage to reverse the trend in 2026, when real construction volume is...

This paperinvestigates the duration of housing construction projects in the Netherlands. We utilize comprehensive data from the Dutch Land Registry for the period 2013-2022 to investigate the importance of municipal land ownership, building plot price changes, construction costs, development...

In dem Antrag der SPD-Landtagsfraktion in NRW wird die Landesregierung für ihre Wohnungspolitik kritisiert (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2023). Dabei werden drei Themen besonders fokussiert: die fehlende Reaktion auf die Wohnungsbaukrise, die unzureichende Unterstützung von Sozialwohnungen und...

Bedingt durch den Mix aus gestiegenen Zinsen und gestiegenen Baukosten befindet sich der Wohnungsneubau in Deutschland in einer sehr schwierigen Lage. Darüber hinaus wird die Lage erschwert durch Unsicherheiten über zukünftige Mietregulierungen, Klimaschutzmaßnahmen, Stadtentwicklungstrends...

This article examines the recent downturn in Germany's housing construction sector, marked by a significant drop in business climate indicators. Key factors include material shortages, order cancellations, financing constraints, and a lack of new orders, which have worsened since the COVID-19...

Die Bedarfe an neuen Wohnungen und Häusern sind in vielen Städten und Gemeinden sehr hoch und werden nicht durch ein ausreicheichendes Wohnungsangebot gedeckt. Insgesamt werden im Zeitraum 2021 bis 2025 jedes Jahr 372.600 neue Wohnungen benötigt. Zwischen 2021 und 2023 wurden hingegen...

Die Bundesrepublik steht vor der historischen Aufgabe, inmitten sich überlagernder Krisen und nach langem Modernisierungsstau das zu tun, was nötig ist, um auch in den kommenden Jahren Produktivität, Daseinsvorsorge und Sicherheit zu gewährleisten. Dies erfordert auch einen zielgerichteten...

High construction prices and worsened financing conditions are weighing on the construction industry, especially build-ing construction. Despite a nominal increase of six percent in construction expenses in 2023, it decreased by just over one percent in inflation-adjusted terms. In 2024, the...

Boston's high housing costs reflect a historic failure to build enough units to satisfy demand. Interest rates and construction costs have risen recently, and the flow of new market-rate residential housing projects has slowed. To spur more construction, the City of Boston is considering various...

The aim of the study was to develop a method for estimating the profitability of housing investments. Market practice shows that the profitability of this type of investment is influenced by specific determinants that are absent in the classical approach to profitability analysis. The most...

Zum ersten Mal haben das Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen BWO und das Bundesamt für Statistik BFS Daten und Informationen zum gemeinnützigen Wohnungsbau zusammengetragen und in der Broschüre "Statistik des gemeinnützigen Wohnungsbaus 2024" anschaulich dargestellt. Der gemeinnützige Wohnungsbau...

The copper price is a leading indicator of real estate activity. Price increases are statistically related to increasing numbers of applications for residential building permits. However, this reciprocity is not instantaneous as permit numbers lag price rises by 9 to 10 months. This dynamic is...

Seit dem Jahr 2007 können die Bundesländer die Steuersätze der Grunderwerbsteuer eigenständig festlegen. In der Folge haben außer Bayern und Sachsen alle Bundesländer die Sätze erhöht. Die Ergebnisse Bayerns und Sachsens bezüglich der Wohnungsbautätigkeit und der Steuereinnahmen werden...

Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of housing construction on single-family housing values and the implications for urban development. Design/methodology/approach To achieve this objective, the author used the difference-in-difference methodology to examine the effect of multifamily...

Following the construction boom of recent years in Germany, inflation and supply bottlenecks hit the industry hard in 2022. While nominal construction volume increased by nearly 14 percent, it decreased by two percent when adjusted for inflation. Residential construction, which is urgently...

Der Koalitionsvertrag der Ampelkoalition sieht 400.000 neu gebaute Wohnungen pro Jahr vor. Dieses Ziel wird bis auf Weiteres deutlich verfehlt, trotz des (wieder) eingerichteten Bauministeriums. Mittlerweile scheint sich außerdem der Wind auf dem Bau zu drehen, so ist die zuvor beobachtete...

The environment for investment in housing construction has changed drastically. Rising interest rates and construction costs are leading to a signifi cant decline in investment activity. This will exacerbate the shortage on the housing market, as refugees from Ukraine also require housing on a...

In 2021, 293,000 dwellings were completed in Germany. This is at least 130,000 more than were completed at the low point in 2010, but less than the government had planned in order to limit the housing shortage. It is very likely, that residential construction is going to decline following the...

Last year, the Russian real estate market was fully affected by the shocks that hit the domestic economy, passing through several phases. The first months were marked by the continued growth of real estate prices with a shortage of supply. The mechanism of government mortgage support worked out...

This study applies a model averaging approach to conditionally forecast housing investment in the largest euro area countries and the euro area. To account for substantial modelling uncertainty, it estimates many vector error correction models (VECMs) using a wide set of short and long-run...

Housing in remote Australia's Indigenous communities has remained an unsolved challenge after many years of effort. Factors to be considered in remote housing have been researched broadly but rarely taking a holistic design point of view. This requires the inclusion of all factors that affect...

This paper explores the relationship between land tenure security and housing investment among households in Bangladeshi poor settlements. The level of housing investment is measured through the type of physical structure of the house, or more specifically, floor materials. Cluster-robust...