This study applies a housing market perspective on hotspots in northern, rural Sweden. It uses the concept ‘hotspot’ defined as places with rising house prices and in-migration of households with higher than average education and income. The focus rests on three places having the ideal characteristics of being a rural hotspot, located in three Swedish northern municipalities. These places are e...

The UK housing market has, over the recent 5 years, experienced considerable economic pressures both from the market place and the construction sector. The need for an economic and mass produced housing type that specifically targets the market to achieve the balance for the need of affordability and the benefits of mass customisation is a key focus for delivery. This study sought to deliver a ...

This paper estimates both the conditional systematic and idiosyncratic risks in the housing market using the monthly housing price data on U.S metropolitan areas over the sample period Jan 1987 to Oct 2008. Different to previous studies, this paper decomposes the total risk in housing market into both the systematic and the nonsystematic parts by introducing new model-independent approaches for...

How does the location of new jobs in a metropolitan area affect the suburban housing market? Economists expect job growth to increase the demand for housing, and furthermore , they expect the increase in demand to be greater in communities near the new jobs than in more distant ones. Moreover, growth in jobs with higher wages should increase the demand for housing more than growth in jobs with ...