Purpose The primary aim of this research is to examine the effects of the Renovation, Conversion, and Extension (ROT) tax deduction for renovations on the scope and quality of renovations and its subsequent impact on house prices across various Swedish municipalities. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate why housing prices differ between regions, and to estimate the speed‐of‐adjustment. Design/methodology/approach – A variety of factors explains the differences in the prices of single‐family houses. Changes in disposable income over...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of Swedish rent controls on observed vacancy rates for rental housing. Design/methodology/approach – Housing vacancy rates are unevenly distributed among Swedish municipalities. In large expansive municipalities, such as Malmö,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent that interest subsidies have impacted on the total production of Swedish single‐ and multifamily houses. It also intends to examine whether tenure neutrality provision of interest subsidy that subsidy policy advocates was...

Housing markets are typically segmented into a number of different sub‐markets. If the sub‐markets are not included in the hedonic estimation process, parameters will be biased. Furthermore, if neighbourhood characteristics are omitted, there is a risk that spatial dependency will be...