This book provides evidence on how housing finance markets developed
across Europe. The objective of the text is to bring together up to date
material from across Europe which will help to clarify (i) how national
housing finance markets have dealt with the challenges of deregulation
and privatisation since the 1980s, (ii) how the financial crisis has
impacted on the structure of the industry and the range of financial
instruments available, (iii) how governments and the EU have responded
to increasing risks and higher indebtedness in most West European
countries and the need to grow new finance markets in Eastern Europe,
and (iv) how changing housing finance markets impact on the capacity to
provide adequate affordable housing into the future