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- Granath Hansson, Anna
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Boosting affordable housing supply: Could typeapproval of serially produced housing be a piece in the puzzle?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Zeitschrift für Immobilienökonomie/ German Journal of Real Estate Research. - Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH. - 1611-4051 .- 2198-8021. ; , s. 1-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The housing shortage has become a major political concern in Sweden and Germany. To ease tension on housing markets, both the Swedish and German central governments aim to extend housing supply and have highlighted type approval of multi-family housing as an important concept in the provision of affordable housing.The article outlines the role of serial housing construction in a historical as well as a contemporary setting, and describes the roles of agents and institutional prerequisites related to housing policy, urban planning and building permission in the two countries. The comparative data is analysed using theories on institutional change, with the aim of tentatively explaining why and how institutional change evolves.Results show that shifts in relative prices, technology and preferences are driving reform. Although the major agents (central governments, states, municipalities and developers) have different motives for supporting or working against reform, a majority of agents are acting in favour of reform. It is concluded that it is probable that type approval of multi-family housing will be introduced in both countries. However, the time for negotiations on the scope of reform between agents involved is expected to be shorter in Sweden than in Germany, due to Sweden’s fewer layers of government and a stronger set of decisive agents. Once an agreement has been reached, reform is expected to be quicker in Germany than in Sweden as legal text and an assessment institution already exist.
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- Steininger, Bertram I., et al.
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Wahrnehmung des Energieausweises in hypothetischen und realen Mietentscheidungen auf dem deutschen Wohnimmobilienmarkt
- 2018
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Ingår i: Zeitschrift für Immobilienökonomie. - Wiesbaden : Springer. - 1611-4051 .- 2198-8021. ; 4:1-2, s. 29-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The real estate sector plays a key role in the German climate and energy policy due to its great potential for reducing the energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) represents an important tool to provide information concerning the energy quality of a certain property. The introduction of the obligation to disclose the EPC when residential buildings are offered for sale or rent in 2014 should further strengthen the role of the information tool. This study investigates the perception and influence of the EPC using the following complementary methods: expert interviews, choice-based conjoint analysis and hedonic pricing model. In addition to the analysis of hypothetical rental decisions on residential properties, this study also focuses on the resulting price effect of EPCs. The results show on the one hand a relatively high importance of the energy quality when tenants’ preferences are determined indirectly. On the other hand, the price effect for energy-efficient apartments amounts up to 7.1%. The price effect also intensifies after the recast of the legal provisions indicating a higher transparency of the market through the introduction of the disclosure obligation. However, there are still obstacles, which require further development of the information tool in order to exploit the potential of the EPC.
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