Projects
The negative nature of the land register KU Leuven
When one acquires real estate in Belgium, one puts his trust in the land register that the previous mentioned owner was effectively the owner of the real estate. Thus one hopes to get the certainty that he will not lose the real estate he bought. The interventions of the notary and the registrar of the land register contribute to this expectation. However, despite this legitimate hope, the Belgian land register does not offer this certainty. ...
Sabbatical Manuel Aalbers: KU Leuven
The sabbatical consists of two parts: In the first part, I will visit the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY) where I will spend the first semester studying the neighborhood of Sunset Park in Brooklyn, NY. Sunset Park is a multi-ethnic neighborhood and has been so since the first houses were constructed a century ago. Currently, the neighborhood is home to large Mexican, Puerto Rican, and ...
Predictive clustering for structured biomedical data. KU Leuven
In many areas of science, data is generated at an increasing pace, calling for adequate data mining tools to extract useful knowledge. Challenges encountered include the scale and the complexity (structure) of the data. An increasing number of new applications, including the analysis of complex biomedical data, motivate the adaptation of existing, and the design of new methodologies. In this project, we will develop new data mining methods to ...
Essays on household behavior in the mortgage market and house price dynamics. KU Leuven
The housing market depends critically on credit market conditions and the link between housing and credit has recently attracted considerable interest in empirical papers. The strong interlinkage between both markets raises numerous question: How do borrowers choose between different mortgage products? How do households make reinvestment decision for their largest single component of household wealth? How are housing and mortgage markets ...
Housing market responses to mandatory flood risk disclosure. University of Antwerp
Efficient 3D reconstruction using mobile devices KU Leuven
Unraveling the connections between macroprudential policy, housing affordability and household resilience. Ghent University
Even though owning a house is a life goal for many, providing lenient access to mortgage credit is not necessarily desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint as the build-up of unsustainable household debt is detrimental to macroeconomic and financial stability. To prevent evolutions in the residential real estate market from causing widespread financial instability, macroprudential policies have been developed in the wake of the Global ...
OnTables AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
The numerus clausus in property law: an enemy of private environmental conservation? KU Leuven
The sustainability theme has meanwhile become omnipresent and is gaining more and more focus, mainly from a public (property) law perspective. Essential and often overlooked, however, is the question of what role private property law, and more particularly the right of ownership, can fulfill in this (fancy / hip) transition towards a more conscious use / occupation of space and the land together (and living on, under or above it). After all, ...