Mr. Harald Finger

Mr. Pragyan Deb

Kenichiro Kashiwase

Yosuke Kido

Siddharth Kothari

Mr. Evan Papageorgiou

Henry Hoyle

Anne Oeking

The paper intends to highlight challenges in Asian housing markets linked to fast price rises especially in the advanced economies since COVID, and more broadly including many EMs in the period leading up to COVID. It aims to draw policy lessons on how to manage stability aspects through macroprudential and other policies and how to support affordability through structural policies and targeted government support.

Housing Market Stability and Affordability in Asia-Pacific