International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis: Volume 12 Issue 1

Editorial

Richard Reed

Investigating the cost of offsite construction housing in Western Australia

Monty Sutrisna, Barry Cooper-Cooke, Jack Goulding, Volkan Ezcan

Offsite construction approaches and methodologies have been proffered a potential solution for controlling “traditional” projects, especially where high levels of complexity and…

Dual process of dual motives in real estate market Indonesia

Anastasia Njo, Narsa I. Made, Andry Irwanto

The dual process of thinking between conscious processes and unconscious processes generate a different decision. Thinking consciously produces rational decisions. However, a…

A bump in the road: speed bumps’ impact on property values

John Edward Graham, Adam Talbot Jones

Speed bumps invite varied responses from homeowners, drivers and policymakers. Parents of small children like speed bumps, if they slow the passing traffic, but prospective home…

Developer constraints on housing supply in urban Ghana

Anthony Owusu-Ansah, Kenneth W. Soyeh, Paul K. Asabere

This study aims to document the major underlying forces prohibiting housing development in urban Ghana. Previous studies in Ghana have not empirically examined these constraints…

Epidemiological spreading of mortgage default

Jochen Schweikert, Markus Höchstötter

This paper aims to introduce mathematical models to capture the spreading of epidemics to explain the expansion of mortgage default events in the USA.

Externalities of home-ownership on entrepreneurship: empirical evidence

Jani-Petri Laamanen

This study aims to examine the externalities from regional home-ownership to individual-level entrepreneurship.

Household mortgage demand: a study of the UK, Australia and Japan

Michio Naoi, Piyush Tiwari, Yoko Moriizumi, Norifumi Yukutake, Norman Hutchison, Alla Koblyakova, Jyoti Rao

Homeownership has been the main focus of housing policies in most countries. Typical means that households use to achieve homeownership is to take out a loan and supplement this…

Prescience evidence of the housing market and production sector performance nexus: Insights from Malta

Andrew Adewale Alola

Observation of misalignment of the house prices with fundamentals in Malta was recently investigated (Vakili-Zad and Hoekstra, 2011; Micallef, 2018). As such, this study aims to…

House prices and unemployment: an empirical analysis of causality

Manuchehr Irandoust

This paper aims to examine whether there exists a long-run causal relationship between house prices and unemployment rates for eight major European countries.