In many developed countries, house prices have been rising rapidly, mortgage debt has been increasing and affordability has worsened. It is in this context that the standard annuity mortgage is increasingly being supplanted by mortgages with non-standard features, such as longer terms or...

The presented house price index for Denmark from 1860 to 2012 has been constructed by analysing already published data from Statistics Denmark. Houses are heterogeneous assets, and nowadays they differ in many aspects from houses in 1860. Due to improved building quality, urbanization and the...

The taxation of the return of residential properties totally depends on the type of ownership and tenure in Denmark and the differences are seen in the computing of income, tax types and in tax rates from 0 % to above 60 %. Together with other housing subsidies this disparity of treatment in...