This paper studies the sensitivity of investment in apartment building maintenance to building debt levels. I use a novel data set combining housing code violations from forty-five U.S. cities with apartment financing information to show that highly leveraged buildings tend to be less well...

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...

Under tenancy rent control, rents are regulated within a tenancy but not between tenancies. This paper investigates the effects of tenancy rent control on housing quality and maintenance. Since the discounted revenue received over a fixed-duration tenancy depends only on the starting rent,...

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...