Housing Wealth as Insurance: Insights from the UK

The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 339-360

  Searle, Beverley A ^a   Smith, Susan J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equity borrowing depending on character and availability of mortgage finance; Equity borrowing direct self insurance role, substituting for costly and unpopular private insurances; Equity borrowing housing wealth as a financial buffer; Equity borrowing across the life course; Evidence gap in UK's quantitative data resources on housing wealth, mortgage debt and equity borrowing; Forefront of wave of financial deregulation key to phase of unprecedented competition among lenders; Housing wealth as insurance insights from UK; Microeconomic, household level data exploring practice of mortgage equity withdrawal; Owner occupation dominant housing tenure; UK survey and Australian counterparts in HILDA

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EID: 84881083253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317978.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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