To understand the formation and extent of the speculative tsunami that sweeps the coast of the Spanish economy since the end of 2007, it is necessary to analyze the profitability of property sales in the past decade. This article analyzes economic and financial profitability, and the multiplier...

La política de vivienda que se ha desarrollado en Colombia durante las dos últimas décadas ha tenido la orientación de claros principios liberales. A comienzos de los años noventa se introdujeron dos reformas substanciales al respecto: la eliminación de las particularidades de la línea de...

Spanish Abstract: Este texto evalúa la evolución cuantitativa de la vivienda autoconstruida en Bogotá durante los últimos años, cuando la política de vivienda social ha tenido una de las orientaciones neoliberales más radicales de América Latina. En los círculos gubernamentales de la...

Se hace una breve historia del crédito hipotecario en Colombia. La cuantificación se puede hacer a partir del año 1923, una vez creados el Banco de la República y la Superintendencia Bancaria a raíz de las recomendaciones de la Misión Kemmerer. En los años treinta y cuarenta la principal...

The objective of this research is to analyse the factors that have influenced on housing market in Spain after the beginning of the financial crisis. To this end, this investigation has used a fixed effect data panel covering from 2008 to 2016 for 17 Spanish regions, which has taken into...

Housing construction has been fueled in recent years by a speculative process that has ended up generating an extraordinary oversupply. The aim of this study is to quantify the gap between supply and demand for housing in the Spanish economy between 1996 and 2007. Different estimates of the...

No one can ignore the importance of financial innovation in mortgage markets. A relevant issue is the choice of the amortization system. This article shows how the French amortization system has reduced the price of loans in the short term whereas price of loans has become more expensive in the...

Housing construction has been fueled in recent years by a speculative process that has ended up generating an extraordinary oversupply. The aim of this study is to quantify the gap between supply and demand for housing in the Spanish economy between 1996 and 2007. Different estimates of the...

The following work is to estimate the theoretical demand for housing in Spain given the demographic trends and the preferences of investors between 2001 and 2008. The paper shows how much of the demand does not respond to demographic factors. The stock of unsold new houses is estimated and it is...