Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / "December 1994". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-117). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Hous.M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-96) Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Hous. M.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2004. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-91)

This diploma thesis discusses about possibilities of housing financing and is especially focusing on mortgage market in Czech Republic. First part of this thesis has theoretical character and describes different types of housing: property housing, cooperative housing and rental housing and their specific features. This part also contains general characteristics of the basic ways of housing financing: building saving and mortgages. Besides, building savings is here compared with mortgages and there are described advantages and disadvantages of those both possibilities of housing financing. In this part there are also put examples of "future mortgages", which are not offered by Czech banks yet. The second part of the diploma thesis is focusing its attention on actual world crisis. Defines reasons of its origin, describes its impact on European and Czech economy. Also, discusses about impact the actual crisis has on estate market and market with loans and mortgages in Czech Republic. The third part of the thesis is concerned on standard procedure while disposing the mortgage and contains short example of buying an apartment by fictive person.

The existing literature on household wealth accumulation has hitherto recognized the lifecycle effects, household socio-economic characteristics, bequest motives, and intergenerational transfers as important factors affecting household net wealth. The two empirical essays in this thesis expand the literature by emphasizing the likely roles that a household's tenure choice and home equity borrowing decisions have in its wealth accumulation process. The first essay, entitled "Homeownership and Household Wealth Accumulation", tests whether homeownership has placed the owner household on a more favorable wealth accumulation path, based on past observations that the values of owner-occupied housing have grown at a real rate greater than those of financial or other tangible assets. The premise is that, while the tenure choice decision is affected by a household's net wealth, the housing tenure chosen could place a household on different wealth accumulation paths over its life-cycle. Controlling for selection bias arising from tenure status, the results indicate that typical homeowners and renters have distinct wealth accumulation processes. While homeownership improves the wealth position of homeowners, the renter households are, however, better off in their existing tenure than otherwise. It appears that households self-select themselves into the appropriate tenure that optimizes their wealth accumulation paths. The second essay on "Household Consumption/Investment Behavior and Home Equity Loans" investigates which behavioral model underpins the homeowners' consumption and investment decisions of home equity loan funds, and how these decisions impact portfolio decisions and wealth accumulation. It concludes that the 'life-cycle model' and the 'precautionary savings model' prevail over the 'bequest motive model' in motivating the household consumption/investment decisions of home equity loans. Home equity loans alter the illiquid nature of housing investment through convenient tapping of housing equity, and reduce household preference to hold liquid assets to meet precautionary needs. Their presence encourages loan users to hold smaller shares of liquid cash and financial assets in total assets, and to diversify from housing asset to business, real estate and illiquid nonhousing assets. They generally reduce homeowners' net wealth, reflecting a tendency for borrowed funds to be consumed or invested in loss-incurring assets. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

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