..., but procedural issues during the application process and some unfavorable outcomes in terms of significant decline in the disposable income of user of scheme and uncertainty regarding future interest rate have also been found as major concern of the beneficiaries. Furthermore, the study explores the challenges...

... economic conditions lead to increased housing affordability, particularly in colder regions. Additionally, climate change positively affects housing affordability in the short term. Finally, this study confirms the important role of interest rates in the relationship between economic conditions and housing...

... to consider a decisive management of monetary and fiscal policies to ensure that inflation and interest rates for housing are kept at a low level to encourage housing demand. Also, adequate policies should be put in place to ensure housing/property affordability that matches the increasing population due...

... that was constructed, house prices were treated as the dependent variable and other variables, namely, the interest rate, the gross domestic product (GDP) and the consumer price index (CPI) as explanatory or regression variables. All these data come from the annual publication of the World Bank’s statistical report...

... estate investment are three important investment vehicles to Chinese households. Findings The authors find that interest rate, an important monetary aggregate indicator – M2 – and the size of new equity offering are negatively related to real estate investment, which may imply that Chinese investors...