The long period of house price growth in markets across the world ended with the US and global financial crisis of 2007/08. The crisis and the consequent recession had profound effects on mortgage market actors – including households, institutions and governments – in most advanced...

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...

This CASEbrief is an executive summary of 'A framework for housing in the London Thames Gateway', a 3 volume report by LSE Housing and Enterprise LSE Cities (Anne Power, Liz Richardson, Kelly Seshimo, Kathryn Firth, with Philipp Rode, Christine Whitehead and Tony Travers). The report makes...

Swedish housing policy was dramatically changed during the 1990s. A traditional formally tenure-neutral and generous subsidy system has been replaced by much lower levels of assistance, more directed at lower-income households and depressed areas. This paper sets the Swedish policy in an...