Our paper analyses the relationship between homeownership rates as a proxy for the ratio of low income homeowners and the volatility of housing prices. There might be a destabi-lizing impact because income risks of low income households might be higher, financial resources tend to be scarcer and...

The concept of financial leverage is a paradigm in real estate investment and vital to most investment decision making. Financial theory suggests that the amount of leverage indicates the degree of risk tolerance associated with an investment. Clearly, leverage increases the buying power of an...

This article integrates the promotion of building saving into the current housing policy background and studies its effects in empirical terms. We have used microeconomic cross-sectional analyses of the income and consumption surveys to point out significant interrelations between saving...

Our paper describes the results of a Social Return on Investment (SROI)analysis of four new housing projects in Germany. A common characteristic of all projects is the central importance of mutual neighborly support to meet the demand for assistance of older residents. All projects share some...

Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...

This paper analyses the performance of real estate securities and their relationship to other asset classes as well as to consumer price inflation in an international comparison over the period from 1990 to 2004. The analysis focuses on the long run relationships, applying three different...

Im langfristigen Zeithorizont der kapitalgedeckten Altersvorsorge kommt Kostenunterschieden zwischen verschiedenen Anlageformen große Bedeutung zu. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde das Kostenniveau von Rentenversicherungen und Investmentsparplänen, deren Guthaben bei Fälligkeit in eine...

The paper analyses the potential impact of stock market developments on lending behaviour from different perspectives. First we scrutinize the impact of stock market movements on the banks' and on the borrowers' balance sheets. Subsequently we estimate aggregate credit supply and demand...

Gegenstand ist die Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der privaten, staatlich geförderten Altersvorsorge (Riester-Rente) auf die Alterseinkommen und die Konsummöglichkeiten im Alter nach Wohnkosten. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein Simulationsmodell entwickelt, dass die Steuer- und Abgabenbelastung von...