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Exploding House Prices in Urban Housing Markets: Explanations and Policy Solutions for the Netherlands

In: Hot Property

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  • Christian Lennartz

    (RaboResearch Rabobank)

  • Barbara Baarsma

    (RaboResearch Rabobank)

  • Nic Vrieselaar

    (RaboResearch Rabobank)

Abstract

Strong house price growth is by no means a post-crisis phenomenon but has been at the centre of economic and societal transformations in almost all advanced economies since the 1980s. More recently, however, more expensive and more unaffordable housing has become increasingly concentrated in urban housing markets, suggesting that the underlying causes of house price appreciation have shifted in a different direction. This policy paper illustrates the concrete processes and underlying mechanisms of these developments in the major cities of the Netherlands. Using these findings we then discuss specific housing and planning policies that could make urban housing markets less volatile and more equitable. These policy proposals revolve around three key themes: how to produce more and more affordable housing units; how to better allocate scarce housing resources among residents and across regions; and how to reduce the speculative element in contemporary housing markets.

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  • Christian Lennartz & Barbara Baarsma & Nic Vrieselaar, 2019. "Exploding House Prices in Urban Housing Markets: Explanations and Policy Solutions for the Netherlands," Springer Books, in: Rob Nijskens & Melanie Lohuis & Paul Hilbers & Willem Heeringa (ed.), Hot Property, chapter 0, pages 207-221, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-11674-3_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11674-3_18
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