2  BIS Review 49/2009  Two common elements in the countries that experienced rapid house price increases were financial innovation (which greatly increased the access of households to finance) and relatively low interest rates (which reduced the cost of finance). The latter is true not only for the official interest rates set by central banks, but for longer-term rates set in capital markets.
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