Invitation to European Commission

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Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar, Professor of Civil Law and Director of the Housing Chair URV has been invited by the European Commission (The Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets) to participate as speaker at the International Conference on covered bonds held on February 1st in order to inform on the harmonization of mortgage bonds in Europe because, which despite being a very robust financial product, it has some shortcomings, such as the negative impact of the crisis that some national covered bonds have suffered.

It is a very important decision to achieve a real common European mortgage market because mortgages represent more than 50% of European GDP and is an area not yet harmonized. The harmonization of covered bonds may mitigate the negative consequences of a new mortgage crisis.

4th International Workshop

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On January 22 was hold the 4th International Workshop, in which two visiting professors of the Housing Chair have been speakers. Dr. Katarzyna Królikowska, from the Constitutional Court of Poland, who presented their work on the possible regulation of shared ownership and temporal ownership in the Civil Code of Poland and Dorit Garfunkel, researcher at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, who presented her research on condominiums and skyscrapers.

Meeting with Reviure Solanell

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Members of the Housing Chair met on January 21th with the team of Reviure Solanell, a project created to rebuild and revive the village Solanell. One of the options that could be applied would be the use of shared ownership.

Agreement between the Housing Chair and DIBA

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Rovira i Virgili, through the Housing Chair and Barcelona Provincial Council (Diputació de Barcelona, DIBA), have signed an agreement to conduct joint research on housing. This agreement will allow to continue the collaboration between both institutions, which have already carried out joint research on intermediate tenures and masoveria urbana.

Speaker at the Local Law seminar

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Dr. Sergio Nasarre on 15 January, has been a speaker at the Local Law Seminar, a program specialized in local law training offered uninterruptedly since 1987 by the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia, Barcelona City Council, Provincial Council Barcelona Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and the School of Public Administration of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

The presentation of Dr. Nasarre was entitled: “New local responses to social demands in housing.”