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Report 18th May 2023

Financing first home ownership: modelling policy impacts at market and individual levels

Rachel Ong ViforJ, James Graham, Melek Cigdem, Christopher Phelps, Stephen Whelan

This research conducted modelling experiments to examine the relationship between different housing finance conditions and people’s ability to buy a first home. The first simulated the housing market’s response to decreases in interest rates, while the second simulated the market’s response to variations in borrowing standards such as changes in financial regulations or allowing households to borrow more or less against the value of their homes. 

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Report 7th July 2022

Assisting first homebuyers: an international policy review

Hal Pawson, Chris Martin, Julie Lawson, Stephen Whelan, Fatemeh Aminpour

This research reviewed first homebuyer (FHB) assistance programs in Australia and seven comparator countries: Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Singapore and the UK. It considered to what degree such assistance are effective in expanding access to home ownership to those whose entry would be otherwise delayed or impossible, or in making more affordable and less risky the cost of home ownership.

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