Description

• Title:
  Emerging urban housing markets: a tale of two cities
• Creator:
  TSENKOVA, Sasha
• Contributor:
  University of Toronto, Department of Geography;
  esrap-me@geo.uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  The paper conceptualises the process of transition from a centrally planned to a market-based housing system focusing on processes of change in the emerging home ownership markets. The Bulgarian housing situation, given the legacy of 90% home ownership, offers both opportunities and challenges as a setting for a case study. On the one hand, it enables the observation of typical processes associated with the transition to market economy in Central and Eastern Europe: privatisation, changes in housing finance, restructuring of housing production, and emerging residential differentiation. On the other hand, it provides a revealing variation in the process of change as il is experienced in local markets. The research evaluates the impact of housing reforms on the production, distribution and consumption of owner-occupied housing in Bułgaria. A set of key linkages relates the economy, the housing market and the behaviour of market-based institutions and actors in the provision system. The analysis explores those linkages in two buoyant local markets focusing on house price dynamics, market differentiation and demand-driven changes in the supply of owner-occupied housing.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2025.07.17;
  1999.12.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  European Spatial Research and Policy;2;
  6
• Subject:
  urban housing;
  market economy;
  Bulgaria
• Identifier:
  1231-1952;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/56058 ;
  1896-1525;
  10.18778/1231-1952.6.2.03
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
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