The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Our Home in Days Gone By: Housing Markets in Advanced Economies in Historical Perspective – Freie Universität Berlin
• Stabilising the housing market – VOX
• Partnership on Housing delivers guidance on state aid and a toolkit for affordable housing – European Commission
• The State of Housing in the EU 2017 – Housing Europe
• World’s Housing Market Set to Slow – Bloomberg
• Why “affordable housing” in Africa is rarely affordable – Economist
• Demographic change and house prices: Headwind or tailwind? – Economic Letters

On the US:

• Tarnishing the Golden and Empire States: Land-Use Restrictions and the U.S. Economic Slowdown – NBER
• Who Defaults on Their Mortgage, and Why? Policy Implications for Reducing Mortgage Default – Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Maybe Cities Are the Future of Suburbs – Bloomberg
• How Harvey Will Affect Houston’s Housing Market – Bloomberg
• Houston’s Unsinkable Housing Market Undaunted by Storm – New York Times
• House Prices to Median Household Income – Calculated Risk

On other countries:

• [Denmark] Short-Term Expectation Formation Versus Long-Term Equilibrium Conditions: The Danish Housing Market – University of Copenhagen
• [Germany] Three Risks for the German Residential Property Market – Cologne Institute of Economic Research
• [Hong Kong] Hong Kong Finance Chief Warns Again of Property Risk on Fed – Bloomberg
• [Ireland] Report finds Irish housing subsidy not key price driver – Reuters
• [Ireland] Central Bank singles out cash buyers as key driver of house prices – The Irish Times
• [Pakistan] ‘Land Mafia’ Killing Exposes Dark Underbelly of Pakistan’s Property Boom – Bloomberg
• [New Zealand] Macroprudential policies in a low interest-rate environment – Reserve Bank of New Zealand
• [Sweden] Swedish central bank wants tighter mortgage rules as soon as possible – Reuters
• [United Arab Emirates] Dubai Property Set to Fall Further as Vacancies Climb – Bloomberg