<title>Abstract</title> This review concerns housing equity and the way it is used as a pension, across the member states of the European Union. Its starting point is a correlation between trends over time in home ownership rates and ageing populations. It is not primarily about the role of governments or of...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> Societies are trying to cope with ageing and the consequences of the global financial crisis. In most societies collective welfare arrangements for the elderly are under pressure, and drawing on housing equity can be considered as a potential source of augmenting one's pension and...

<title>Abstract</title> The economic life-cycle model assumes that households spread their income as well as possible over the life cycle (Deaton, 1992). They accumulate wealth throughout the life cycle and decumulate in old age. To date, however, results have shown that households tend to treat housing wealth...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to study how fair values in financial reports are audited. Design/methodology/approach: The study is a qualitative case study based on in-depth interviews. Findings: One important finding is that auditors anchor in the figure presented by the company, and...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the methods and standards of valuation used by Swedish professional property valuers when appraising commercial properties and factors affecting those standards. The study builds on a 2002 comparative study of valuers in four...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the concepts market value (MV) and exit price should be interpreted in thin markets and how accounting rules may need to change to take this into account. Design/methodology/approach: This is a conceptual paper using hypothetical examples as...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of bubble, what it means to explain a bubble and propose a list of bubble indicators. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review and some philosophical ideas to derive conclusions for the problems...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to try to explain how long‐term mismanagement of a housing estate could arise in a country with a strong legal framework aimed at preventing such situations. Design/methodology/approach – Assuming that both tenants and landlords are rational, the...