"Undertaking responsible and practical repairs and maintenance policies and strategies are becoming an ever-important factor in life cycle management of property assets from owner occupiers to large property portfolios. In this sense building maintenance practices are needed in every development...

As a solution to urban housing problems, developer's housing in the form of multi-storied apartment buildings are now sprawling up all over busy cities of Bangladesh, specially in Dhaka City. Such housing have got obvious advantages and many disadvantages. One of the major disadvantage arises...

In this article, we study tradeoffs associated with homeownership and renting. We consider a model in which housing capital generates housing services, but also requires regular maintenance. A household wants to purchase a flow of housing services. Maintenance on the house providing this flow to...

The owned home is often the largest asset in a household's portfolio. To maintain its value, the home requires continual reinvestment, and a homeowner can increase its value through renovations and additions. Empirical research on these home maintenance and investment decisions of the household...

We study sources and consequences of fluctuations in the housing market. The upward trend in real housing prices of the last 40 years can be explained by slow technological progress in the housing sector. Over the business cycle, housing demand and housing technology shocks explain one-quarter...

Die Studie dokumentiert die technischen Zusammenhänge und die qualifikatorischen Anforderungen, die bei der Planung, Auslegung und Integration der energetischen Gebäudemodernisierung zu berücksichtigen sind.Die technisch-wirtschaftliche Bewertung von Strom erzeugenden Heizungssystemen zeigt,...

We study sources and consequences of fluctuations in the housing market. The upward trend in real housing prices of the last 40 years can be explained by slow technological progress in the housing sector. Over the business cycle, housing demand and housing technology shocks explain one-quarter...

We study sources and consequences of fluctuations in the housing market. The upward trend in real housing prices of the last 40 years can be explained by slow technological progress in the housing sector. Over the business cycle, housing demand and housing technology shocks explain one-quarter...

Recent research indicates that the marked increase in U.S. income inequality over the last twenty-five years has not been matched by a similar increase in consumption inequality. This paper examines the role of saving/dissaving in a house as a vehicle for consumption smoothing. Data from the...

Der vorliegende Bericht dokumentiert und analysiert die Erfahrungen, die in innovativen Modellvorhaben zur Weiterentwicklung von Wohnungsbeständen gesammelt wurden. Hierbei stand das Marktsegment der Ein- und Zweifamilienhäuser sowie kleinerer Mietobjekte im Vordergrund. Untersucht wurden die...