The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Global developments in residential property prices – BIS
• Global House Price Index – Knight Frank
• European Mortgage Markets Quarterly Review (Q42016) – EMF
• The Valuation of Property for Lending Purposes – EMF
• Winner Take All? Richard Florida’s ‘New Urban Crisis’ Part of Growing Global Focus on Unequal Cities – World Resources Institute
• Pricey housing markets mean co-living buildings are on the rise – Economist

On the US:

• Why Can’t We Get Cities Right? – New York Times
• How Local Housing Regulations Smother the U.S. Economy – New York Times
• Home Purchases and Household Spending – NBER
• Is Home Sharing Driving Up Rents? Evidence from Airbnb in Boston – Journal of Housing Economics
• Rebuilding Housing in Harvey’s Aftermath: Two Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
• Uncertainty in the housing market: Evidence from the US states – University of Macedonia
• 8 Big Housing Changes Thanks to Driverless Cars – John Burns Real Estate Consulting
• Real Estate Lending Risks Monitor – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

On other countries:

• [Canada] Why Bother With Stocks in Vancouver’s Relentless Housing Market? – Bloomberg
• [Canada] Vancouver’s housing crisis – RICS Land Journal
• [Canada] Trends in household mobility and housing choices – CMHC
• [China] China’s property market is a major source of financial risk: central bank official – Reuters
• [Ethiopia] Ethiopia is struggling to make housing affordable – Economist
• [Italy] Is social polarization related to urban density? Evidence from the Italian housing market – Landscape and Urban Planning
• [Netherlands] Can Netherlands’ ground-shifting plan prevent flooding? – Financial Times
• [Norway] Irrationality in the housing market? An empirical analysis of the capitalisation of local property taxes in the Norwegian housing market – University of Oslo
• [Spain] The cycle of wage inequality in Spain: The impact of the boom and bust in the housing market – VOX
• [Spain] Se consolida la tendencia positiva del inmobiliario en el 1S17 – BBVA
• [United Arab Emirates] The UAE Property Report 2017 – Cluttons