The aim of the thesis is to broaden the research in the field of housing economics using the statistical tool of meta-analysis. The thesis examines the relationship between the selling price of a house and the time the house spends at the housing market. Although the research investigating this relation is of a wide comprehension, the results arising from various primary studies differ a lot. The goal of the thesis is to explain the source of this heterogeneity and determine the factors causing this variation. According to the results, it can be concluded that the effect size is influenced mainly by number of observations, modelling technique and specification of the model. Median income or location are other factors also determining the size of estimated coefficients. Also publication bias has been investigated although its presence is not confirmed in this thesis.

This thesis deals with the evolution of prices in the housing market within the Czech Republic. The model of capital stock was used for this purpose. The factors that affect the price evolution were the size of income, the size of the first time buyer population, and the anticipated VAT change on new housing. Various evolution scenarios were presented under various conditions. Housing market in the Czech Republic as a whole and the market in the capital particularly were considered. In the case of the Czech Republic both real and simulated prices reached their peak in 2009, simulated price was 7 % lower than real. Concerning Prague, the real price peak happened in 2008, while the estimated price was 19 % lower compared to real prices.

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This study attempts to analyse urban housing issues and their effects on providing adequate housing for refugees, using Malmö as a case study. The content analysis adopted here uses a combination of semi-structured interviews with relevant government officers, and reports published by government agencies and international institutions as sources of information.The dominant role of the market in Sweden’s housing sector has created housing inequalities and many issues for groups with lower socio-economic status. These issues consist of shortages in affordable dwellings, cramped housing conditions and spatial segregation within the city etc. This study illustrates that refugees in Malmö face additional issues such as lack of knowledge on the housing market, reluctance of landlords to accept refugees’ establishment allowance as an income source, discriminatory attitudes, and lack of larger apartments for their comparatively larger households. They function as barriers to refugees’ right to adequate housing as well as their right to the city, while limiting their opportunities to establish in the host country. The municipality also faces these issues when arranging housing for its ‘assigned’ refugees. Additionally, they are faced with an extended demand on the social services that are meant to support the native homeless groups. Refugees’ housing issues are associated with some gaps involved in the process of accommodating refugees. The Settlement Act introduced in 2016 does not consider availability of housing when distributing refugees to municipalities. It takes more than two years to process asylum applications, compared to UN regulations of six months. The prolonged stay in accommodation centres delays their opportunities to become self-sufficient and integrated into the host society. Refugees are not provided with information relevant to the housing market in Sweden or the municipalities they are allocated to. Although municipalities are given the full responsibility of housing refugees assigned to them, the Settlement Act does not provide any guidelines as to how it should be done. In Malmö there is no evidence that any other government agency or a civil society organisation work in collaboration with the municipality to house refugees. It is clearly evident that the self-housing (EBO) mechanism functions against the objectives of the Settlement Act, consequently major cities such as Malmö continue to be refugee hotspots. In this context, I would argue that refugee housing issues cannot be solved only through dispersal policies, but they should be backed by relevant housing policies that consider housing as a human right, rather than a market commodity. The municipalities should adopt a holistic approach in providing adequate housing for refugees, with adequate regulations on the housing market for the benefit of all.

Benford’s law is based on an observation that certain digits occur more often than others in a set of numbers. This have provided researchers to apply the law in different areas including identifying digit patterns and manipulated data. To our knowledge, this have yet not been tested in the Swedish housing market. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the sale price for 171 643 tenant-owned apartments in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö follow Benford’s law. Numerous researchers have used this law for testing various types of data but based solely on the first digit distribution of their data. This study will furthermore test the second digit and the first two digits of our data. The tests used to evaluate our data’s conformity to Benford’s law include Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Mean absolute deviation (MAD) test. We found that the second digit of sale prices did follow Benford’s law, the first digit and the first two digits did not follow the law. The results show that Benford’s law is a good method for identify certain digit patterns and further research is needed to draw the conclusion that sale price does not follow Benford’s law as certain limitations on our data was identified.

The Czech Republic underwent considerable social, political and economic changes after 1989. An important step was the creation of the labor market where jobs and wages were created based on market supply and demand. Due to effects of these market forces, unemployment was an unavoidable consequence. . Closely related to this was workforce flexibility which over the years became increasingly important. People migrating for work also had an effect on the housing market. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the labor market in the Plzeň Region and the related spatial mobility since 2000 (with a brief development in the 90's). Another important objective is to determine to what extent the migration of the population is affected by the labor market situation and developments in the housing market. Two major institutions were used as the data source for processing thse reviews. The Labour Market in the Plzeň Region was mapped on the basis of data from the Labour Office in Plzeň. Data on development of spatial mobility and the housing market was gained from the Czech Statistical Office online databases and also from the Regional Office of CSO in Plzen. Key words: migration, labour market, housing market, Plzen

Bostadsmarknaden har varit väldigt uppmärksammad de senaste åren på grund av de ökade priserna och lägre bolåneräntor som blivit resultatet av en sänkt reporänta. I detta arbete har skuldsättningen av olika hushållstyper exemplifierats och simulerats utifrån att marknadsvariabler förändras såsom marknadsvärden på bostäder och ränteläget. Utöver detta har skuldsanering satts i relation till en ny typ av skuldlättnad som skulle kunna vara ett alternativ till skuldsanering men också samtidigt förhindra reaförluster och ostabila hushåll under verkningar av exempelvis en ökad räntebörda som hushåll inte klarar av. Denna skuldlättnad är en typ av skuldsanering som bankerna blir obligerade att genomföra då de varit för optimistiska i sin utlåning. Detta skulle göra att bostaden i sig blir mer intressant för bankerna i stället för att endast fokusera på hushållets betalningsförmåga. På detta sätt har bankerna ytterligare ett incitament till att vara försiktiga i sin utlåning, samtidigt som i de fall då denna skuldnedskrivning skulle aktualiseras skulle även hushållen kunna bo kvar i sina bostäder och inte behöva sälja till ett pris möjligen lägre än vad som finns kvar på bolånet. Detta leder till en mer stabil marknad i det fall att priserna skulle sjunka och räntan öka, då inga större realisationsförluster skulle behöva äga rum utan i stället räddas hushållens förmåga att kunna betala för sin bostad. / The housing market has been much discussed the last few years as a consequence of the dramatically increasing prices and the lower interest rates on housing mortgages, which in turn was the consequence of the lowered repo rate. In this thesis the debt constellation of different household types have been exemplified and simulated from market variables such as market values and interest rate levels. Beyond this, debt restructuring has been modified into another type of debt relief that could be an alternative to debt restructuring but also being able to prevent capital losses and instability on the housing market as a consequence of too high interest rates which may force households to sell their house under mortgage levels. This type of debt relief could obligate the banks to relieve the households of the excess debt that they cannot meet. By doing this the banks will have a stronger incentive of making a proper valuation of the residence instead of only focusing on the solvency of the household. This will have the effect that once the household can’t pay for their mortgage they will get the chance to be relieved of excess debt so that they still can live in their residence and not having to sell the property at a low market price so that mortgage still remains after the sell, as this could result in more instability on the housing market. The losses for the banks on debt relief are calculated in these cases to be significantly smaller than the potential capital losses on properties. As a result, fluctuations on the market could be contained to a certain degree by obligating banks to make debt relieves for the households that otherwise would have had to sell, and thus, offering more stability on an instable market.

In this thesis, I study the effect of the downsizing of military bases after theCold War on both local house prices and neighboring municipalities’ houseprices. To establish causality, I use a Difference-in-Difference approach withTwo-Way Fixed Effects. Then an Event Study is performed to examinepossible dynamic effects. I studied both the general effect and heterogeneitytreatment effect. I found that there, in general, is no effect on local houseprices. Only from the 1999s defense bill, which increased local house priceswhen air force bases closed and decreased when army bases closed. However,there is evidence of spillover effects on neighboring municipalities’ houseprices in general, regardless of the base type, from the downsizing of themilitary.

The housing market has lately turned very intense with many speculators and hectic auctions. The high demand and stagnating supply has led to significant increase in housing prices around the Stockholm area. This has resulted in apartments being bought or sold before the ordinary viewings where one out of five apartments is today being sold before the actual viewing.  We have conducted a qualitative study where we have evaluated how selling before ordinary viewings affect the housing market and the corresponding reasons behind this. To enable a pertinent conclusion, we have gather theoretical information regarding what factors affect the housing markets together with interviews with several real estate agents. Furthermore, we have highlighted how the prices differ between apartments that were sold before and after the ordinary viewings. The results showed that the price development is not affected by whether the apartment was sold before or after the ordinary viewing. However, this was not the case if the buyer found the apartment especially lucrative, which meant that the buyer was willing to pay an abnormal high price for it in order to get it out of the market, and thus secure the apartment. We moreover found that it is more profitable for the seller to wait until after the viewing to sell the apartment if such a buyer could not be found. One of the main reasons as to why purchases before ordinary viewing has gotten such a strong foothold lately is because the buyer, and some extent the seller, wants to avoid the high level of competitiveness and hectic auctions. Other motives are to increase revenue and to make the deal as smooth and fast as possible. / Bostadsmarknaden har varit intensiv de senaste aren, visningarna har varit fulla av spekulanter och det har varit hektiska budgivningar. Den hoga efterfragan gentemot det laga utbudet har lett till en stark prisuppgang for bostadsratter i Stockholms lan. Det har aven lett till att kopa och salja innan ordinarie visning blivit vanligare den senaste tiden, da cirka var femte bostadsratt idag saljs innan ordinarie visning.   Det har ar en kvalitativ studie dar det undersokts hur forsaljningar innan ordinarie visningar paverkar bostadsmarknaden och varfor fler vill kopa eller salja innan ordinarie visning. For att komma fram till en slutsats har det inhamtats teorier kring vilka faktorer som paverkar bostadsmarknaden samt utforts intervjuer med flera bostadsmaklare och en illustration dar det undersokts slutpriser pa bostadsratter som salts innan och efter ordinarie visning.   Uppsatsens slutsats ar att prisutvecklingen inte paverkas av forsaljning innan ordinarie visning om inte spekulanten ar en kopare som blivit fascinerad av bostadsratten. Det leder till att den spekulanten ar villig att betala ett hogt pris for den bostadsratten just for att slippa konkurrens och en hektisk budgivning, som i sin tur kan leda till att spekulanten inte vinner budgivningen. Det ar mer lonsamt for en saljare att salja efter en ordinarie visning om en sadan spekulant inte dyker upp.   Nagra av skalen till att fler vill kopa innan ordinarie visning ar att spekulanter vill slippa konkurrens och hektiska budgivningar som har varit vanligt de senaste aren. Somliga skal till att salja innan ordinarie visning ar att saljaren vill forsakra sin vinst och att affaren skall ga till smidigt.

The population of cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg is growing. With this population growth there comes an increased demand for housing in the big cities. The need for housing for all these people is a problem. The housing market have seen the price for housing skyrocket in the last 10 years and the people that are affected the most are young adults. The problem that arises is that young adults that are interested in moving to cities will be forced to rent for hefty amounts of money or get third-hand accommodation. The result is that young adults seek alternative housing, one example being coliving.Coliving is a form of accommodation that houses a group of people in the same apartment. They share facilities in form of kitchen and living room, appliances, and furniture. You get your own private bedroom and occasionally you get you own private bathroom, or you share that as well. Coliving combines privacy with shared areas. Coliving reduces the rent for the residents and creates a social environment for those living there.This study will explore to see if there exist interest in coliving among young adults and to see if young adults can get access to the housing market through coliving. One expert interview and a web survey were conducted to answer this question. In addition to this, earlier studies were also examined. The survey concluded that one-third of the respondents was interested in coliving. The reason is that they think that the housing market is tough and that coliving can be a solution to the housing crisis in cities. Coliving can serve as a smart alternative to the traditional housing types in the big cities and provide access to groups of people that often struggle to enter the housing market.