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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455083803321

Titolo

Home ownership [[electronic resource] ] : getting in, getting from, getting out / / Peter Boelhouwer, John Doling, Marja Elsinga (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Delft, : DUP Science, c2005

ISBN

1-4416-1668-3

1-60750-466-9

600-00-1499-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Housing and urban policy studies, , 0926-6240 ; ; 29

Altri autori (Persone)

BoelhouwerP. J

DolingJ. F

ElsingaMarja

Disciplina

333.338

Soggetti

Home ownership - Europe

Housing - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Contents; Gains and losses for European home owners; First time buyers in Finnish housing markets; 'The quantified customer', or how financial institutions value risk; Optimal mortgage choices within different institutional contexts; Modelling the costs and risk of mortgages; Affordable and low-risk home ownership; Affordability, need and the intermediate market: Responding to the challenge in pressured regions; Structural changes in the Danish market for owner-occupation; Mortgage equity withdrawal and remortgaging activity; Home ownership, poverty and educational achievement

Payment difficulties of home owners in GermanyContributors

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing from the Conference on Housing Growth and Regeneration, this book talks about the gains and losses accruing to individual households by virtue of their position as home owners. It also focuses on the losses, in the form of repayment risk, related to, difficulties that households may experience in meeting housing loan repayment schedules.