BIS Review 95/2007  7  well as mortgages that did not fully amortize and which therefore involved balloon payments at the end of the loan period. Critically, the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s ended the dominance of deposit-taking portfolio lenders in the mortgage market.
Based on these conferences and public comments, the Handbook on Residential Property Price Indices has been drafted, and the finalized version of the Handbook will be published very soon. Moreover, many countries and jurisdictions are now preparing their own property price indexes in accordance with the recommendations of the Handbook.