Housing affordability can have an impact on housing demand. We analyse housing affordability by measuring the distribution of selling prices in the housing market against the distribution of household capacity to debt-finance a home. The latter is calculated based on household debt-servicing...

Housing affordability can have an impact on housing demand. We analyse housing affordability by measuring the distribution of selling prices in the housing market against the distribution of household capacity to debt-finance a home. The latter is calculated based on household debt-servicing...

Debt-servicing capacity is a function of both available cash flow and the size of obligatory expenses. We use household level information to calculate normal expenses that cover food, other general consumption, electricity and fixed housing expences, as well as interest expenses. We link this to...