Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Affluence-Mobility-and-Second-Home-Ownership-Chris-Paris/9781136934728

Housing and Society Series

By Chris Paris

Table of Contents

Forward by NIHE Chairman 1. Introduction: Affluence, Mobility and Second Homes 2. Homes, Second Homes and Many Homes 3. Variations on a Theme: Second Home Ownership in Many Countries 4. Transnational Second Homes 5. Public Policies and Conflicts over Second Homes 6. Conclusions References

Reviews

'This book fills an important gap in our understanding of second homes around the globe. Its focus on the second home market world wide and the links it draws between increasing affluence, mobility and the second homes industry reminds us that we now have a global housing market...Through this book Professor Paris shows both the strength and fragility of the holiday home phenomenon and in so doing provides a great service to all housing researchers and educators.' - Andrew Beer, Professor of Geography in the School of the Environment, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia 'A growing group of affluent and highly mobile executives are buying second homes, sometimes in countries other than their own, thereby reshaping housing markets and communities in new ways, both locally and globally. In this pioneering and thoughtful study of trends, impacts and policy choices in Europe and Australia, Chris Paris provides essential reading for Americans and Canadians who need to pay attention to similar -- and still poorly researched -- trends that affect North American housing markets.' -- J. David Hulchanski, PhD, professor of housing studies, University of Toronto, and associate director for research, Cities Centre, Toronto 'Chris Paris brings both long experience and a new analysis to the question of the role of second homes - a subject which has been very little discussed since the 1970s and which is an increasingly important part of the working of the housing market as a whole.' - Christine Whitehead, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, and Professor of Housing Economics, London School of Economics, UK "The sociological perspective of this book provides a much-needed approach to examine the proliferation of second homes across national boundaries, such as that in southern Asia, and in the internal markets of the increasingly affluent Asian countries such as China. It will be useful for policy makers, planners and housing researchers pursuing better planning for housing and tourism development." - Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, the University of Hong Kong