Hot Property The Housing Market in Major Cities

This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand i

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Hot Property The Housing Market in Major Cities

Hot Property

Rob Nijskens • Melanie Lohuis • Paul Hilbers • Willem Heeringa Editors

Hot Property The Housing Market in Major Cities

Editors Rob Nijskens De Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Melanie Lohuis De Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paul Hilbers De Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Willem Heeringa De Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISBN 978-3-030-11673-6 ISBN 978-3-030-11674-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11674-3

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Foreword

Amsterdam: the city with the highest house price rises in the Netherlands and, in 2017, also in the Eurozone.1 I live in this city, so I have witnessed these soaring prices at first hand. Like many capital cities, Amsterdam has led the rebound in the Dutch housing market, which started in 2013. Prices here began to take off and within a few years were growing at annual rates of over 15%. A similar story can be told about other large cities in the Netherlands. And more recently the rest of the country has followed this trend, albeit at a slower pace, which means that house prices are now rising everywhere. My work takes me all over the globe to the world’s m