European Metropolitan Housing Markets

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. European Housing Markets — An Overview

   • Åke E. Andersson, Lars Pettersson, Ulf Strömquist

   Pages 1-26

3. An Analysis of the Housing Market in Greater Brussels

   • Didier Baudewyns

   Pages 27-61

4. Metropolitan Housing Markets — The Case of Helsinki

   • Heikki A. Loikkanen, Henrik Lönnqvist

   Pages 63-84

5. Housing Markets and Policies in the Munich Metropolitan Area

   • Peter Friedrich, Christian Piesch

   Pages 85-120

6. Recovery and Change: Glasgow’s Housing 1991–2001

   • Duncan Maclennan

   Pages 121-143

7. The Housing Market in Zurich’s Urban Agglomeration

   • Angelo A. Rossi

   Pages 145-164

8. The Amsterdam Metropolitan Housing Market: How a Prosperous Metropolitan Area Co-exists with a Central City Dominated by Social Rental Housing for the Poor

   • Arno J. van der Vlist, Piet Rietveld

   Pages 165-188

9. The Oslo Metropolitan Housing Market

   • Viggo Nordvik

   Pages 189-211

10. The Milan Housing Market

    • Roberto Camagni, Dino Martellato

    Pages 213-240

11. Housing in Vienna

    • Hanns Abele, Andrea Höltl

    Pages 241-267

12. Housing Market and Housing Policy in Hamburg. Evidence and Prospects

    • Annekatrin Niebuhr

    Pages 269-296

13. Housing Market and Housing Policy in Copenhagen

    • Hans Skifter Andersen

    Pages 297-321

14. The Stockholm Housing Market

    • Stellan Lundström, Mats Wilhelmsson

    Pages 323-340

15. Back Matter

    Pages 341-363

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions. The results are based on case studies of twelve European metropolitan regions, including expert panels organized in each. Using an approach from the field of industrial economics, the analysis is divided into the three related stages "structure", "conduct" and "performance." The essential idea is that the structure of a market, defined by market conditions, market growth, forms of competition and control, influences the economic behavior of both companies and households. The effects of this behavior can be observed in the development of prices; exchanged, constructed and maintained housing quantities; location patterns and choice of space. The contributions of this volume reveal significant differences in housing policies between European countries, while at the same time showing that policy effects are well in line with expectations based on traditional housing theory.

• European Housing Markets
• Housing Market
• Housing Markets
• Housing Policy
• Housing Studies
• Metropolitan region
• Urban Studies
• Zurich
• agglomeration
• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews: “‘European metropolitan housing markets’ is a collection of essays describing the operation of housing markets and housing policies in a dozen major cities in Europe – from Glasgow to Milan and from Brussels to Vienna. … The book does contain a number of interesting analytical descriptions … and most of them contain suggestions for those who would like more historical or statistical detail. … For the most part the book makes for interesting reading, and it makes a fine reference book.” (John M. Quigley, Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 87 (4), November, 2008)

• Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

  Åke E. Andersson, Lars Pettersson

• Temaplan, Stockholm, Sweden

  Ulf Strömquist

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