Rethinking the Risks of Home Ownership

Rethinking the “Smart” Home

In this paper we consider what it should mean to build ‘smartness’ or ‘intelligence’ into the home. We introduce an argument suggesting that it is people who imbue their homes with intelligence by continually weaving together things in their physical worlds with their everyday routines and distinct social arrangements. To develop this argument we draw on four ongoing projects concerned with des...

The edges of home ownership

This bulletin is based on research by Professor Gavin Wood and Dr Melek Cigdem at the AHURI Research Centre—RMIT University, Associate Professor Rachel Ong at the AHURI Research Centre—Curtin University and Professor Susan J. Smith at Cambridge University. The research sought to understand the pattern and circumstances in which households in mainstream home ownership churn in and out of home ow...

Determinants · of Home Ownership

Rethinking the Relationship Between Ownership and Corporate Performance

We provide new evidence regarding the relationship between ownership and corporate performance by modelling the relationship between changes in these variables. The paper commences by confirming the results reported by Demsetz and Villalonga (2001) when modelling the relationship between ownership and performance levels. Fitting a generalised nonlinear model that nests models advanced previousl...

Comparative Analysis of Entry to Home Ownership

Entry to home ownership (EHO) is one of the most significant steps that a household takes during household careers (1). It is not only an economic decision of households but also a social and cultural attitude towards housing. It has spatial repercussions within the urban arena as well. In the literature, the process of entry to home ownership has been studied numerous times (Fejitsen and Mulde...