Governments are doing their best to support those looking to buy their first residential properties. Is this going to be enough to bring the market back to life? Mladen Petrov Evo Morales, the leftist president of Bolivia, is known for his wedding presents. Newlyweds in Bolivia don’t even have to invite the president to the wedding in order to receive one of his lavish gifts. “Every newly-wed couple should be given a flat by the state,” the Bolivian president recently declared. Additional information on the ambitious plan is yet to be disclosed, but the government earlier granted 20-year low-interest mortgages for up to USD 15,000. A few thousands kilometres away from Bolivia, in Poland there is the ‘Rodzina na swoim’ scheme. This allows families and single parents to apply for a subsidy for the purchase or construction of the