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HOFINET: A GLOBAL RESOURCE FOR HOUSING FINANCE INFORMATION

A tribute to Jack Guttentag 1923-2024 

Housing and Housing Finance Professionals do not miss the Housing Finance Course for Sub-Saharan Africa which will be held in Mombasa, Kenya from April 14 to 20, 2024. HFCSSA is a comprehensive housing finance workshop focused on innovations in lending, funding, regulating and policy-design in the primary and secondary market for different types of housing finance products. Enrollment information can be found in the events tab and on our LinkedIn.

The Housing Finance Information Network (HOFINET) is a quality-assured web portal that consolidates regularly updated international housing finance knowledge in one central, easily accessible place. 

The HOFINET portal has two interconnected information channels:

TOPICS CHANNEL

The topic channel provides information on housing finance and the economy, alternative housing finance systems, retail and funding aspects of housing finance and housing finance policy.

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Update The topic pages are constantly updated with the latest research and documents in housing finance.  Latest topic page under Mortgage Products is Reverse Mortgages as well as a new subtopic - Pension-Backed Housing Loans.

COUNTRY CHANNEL

The country channel provides consolidated and standardized housing and housing finance sector data by country, research reports, laws and regulations, links to other country data sets and institutions.

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Update New Countries have been uploaded to the site: Botswana, Honduras, Nepal and Taiwan. Updates are also now online for MexicoBoliviaEcuador, Peru, ParaguayVenezuela, Nicaragua and Uruguay


Update Data at a glance and country resources are posted for 140 countries.

 

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Drs. Marja Hoek-Smit

Housing Finance Information Network, Inc.
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Email: hofinetmail@wharton.upenn.edu
Telephone: 215.898.3313 or 215.898.2841
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