Housing markets and the global financial crisis
Subtitle: the uneven impact on households
By: edited by Ray Forrest and Ngai-Ming Yip
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, U.K; Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781849803755; 9781849805841
Subjects: Prices; Housing; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Real estate business
Description: Housing markets were at the centre of the recent global financial turmoil. In this study, a multidisciplinary group of leading housing analysts from the USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia explore the impact of the crisis within and between countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Households, homeownership and neoliberalism  -- Ray Forrest; title: Effects of the recent credit cycle on homeownership rates across households :; title: what we know and what we expect  -- Doug Duncan and Cesar Costantino; title: The credit crunch in the UK :; title: understanding the impact on housing markets, policies and households  -- Peter Williams; title: Housing in Iceland in the aftermath of the global financial crisis  -- Jón Rúnar Sveinsson; title: Housing wealth, debt and stress before, during and after the Celtic Tiger  -- Michelle Norris and Nessa Winston; title: Housing in the Netherlands before and after the global financial crisis  -- Richard Ronald and Kees Dol; title: Housing policy and the economic crisis :; title: the case of Hungary  -- József Hegedüs; title: The impacts of the global financial crisis on housing and mortgage markets in Australia :; title: a view from the vulnerable  -- Mike Berry, Tony Dalton and Anitra Nelson; title: Rebuilding housing polices in response to the current crisis :; title: is homeownership the solution?  -- David Thorns; title: The global financial crisis and its impact on households :; title: the case of urban Vietnam  -- Hoang Huu Phe; title: Housing policy issues in South Korea since the global economic crisis :; title: aspects of a construction-industry-dependent society  -- Soo-hyun Kim; title: Towards a post-homeowner society? :; title: homeownership and economic insecurity in Japan  -- Yosuke Hirayama; title: Business nearly as usual :; title: the global financial crisis and its impacts on households in Hong Kong  -- Ngai-Ming Yip; title: The impact of the financial crisis on China's housing market  -- Jianping Ye and Chao Sun; title: Concluding discussion :; title: where to now?  -- Ray Forrest -- Appendix:; title: selected key indicators.