Among international urban scholars and professionals, the City of Amsterdam is often characterized as a competitive global city with a high degree of social justice (Fainstein, 2010). The Dutch housing market is characterized by a high degree of government intervention. Housing policy in the...

The value gap between rented houses and owner_occupied houses is well known in the literature. It is identified as a factor that may give rise to a gentrification process (Hamnett & Randolph, 1988). The increase of the owner_occupied sector at the expense of the rented sector is also partly...

There is strong evidence of a seasonal pattern in Dutch house prices; prices tend to increase stronger in the second quarter of the year. This is reported both in popular reports from banks (e.g. Rabobank, the largest mortgage supplier of the Netherlands) and in academia (e.g. De Wit & Van der...

This paper is the first part of a dissertation with various topics on the Dutch housing market. Future research is likely to include studies into price formation and development, and consumer behavior in the housing market. Conijn (2006) claims that the Dutch housing market is strongly...

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Housing service are enormously subsidized in the Netherlands (e.g. Conijn, 2008). Home-owners are subsidized mainly through mortgage interest deductibility and tax free capital gains over home equity. Renters receive two kinds of subsidies in the Netherlands: first, there is an income dependent...

PurposeThere is increasing debate about how to finance the increasing costs of our ageing societies. Much attention in Europe has recently focussed on the extent to which households would be willing to use home equity conversion products. The question to which extent home equity can contribute...

House price forecasts are important for several parties. For example, (potential) owner-occupiers want to know whether or not it is a good time to buy or sell a home, and decisions of policy makers and commercial parties may depend on house price expectations. In this paper we are not primarily...

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Asset Liability Management (ALM) models for housing corporations work on the basis of stochastic scenario models for important risk and return drivers such as interest and inflation rates, construction costs and sales prices of houses. Given the situation of the housing corporation (current real...