The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Mortgaging Europe’s periphery – London School of Economics
• The World Bank and the Globalisation of Housing Finance – University of York
• Quarterly Review of European Mortgage Markets – European Mortgage Federation
• Inclusive City Development: City-Wide Slum Upgrading and Housing Development – World Resources Institute
• House Prices Are Up 70 Percent But Experts Don’t Think There’s a Bubble – Bloomberg
• An Urban Equilibrium Model with Rent Controls Applied to Paris Urban Area – Institut d’Economia de Barcelona

On the US:

• Homebuilders hit after Republicans propose cap on mortgage-interest deduction – Financial Times, HousingWire
• The mortgage rate conundrum – VOX
• Immigrants and Housing Demand – Cato Institute
• Mortgage Debt, Consumption, and Illiquid Housing Markets in the Great Recession – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Trends in Housing Problems and Federal Housing Assistance – Urban Institute
• Stuck in Place, U.S. Homeowners Hunker Down as Housing Supply Stays Tight – Wall Street Journal
• Are house prices a new bubble? – Calculated Risk
• America isn’t in a housing bubble, but some cities might be – Urban Institute
• A crisis caused by housing policies, not lack of regulation – American Enterprise Institute
• Where Evictions Hurt the Most – Citylab
• Sand castles on Jersey Shore: property boom defies US flood risk – Financial Times
• How will Hurricanes Harvey and Irma affect housing markets in Texas and Florida? – Urban Institute
• As Lenders Digitize, Borrowers Still Want the “Human Touch” – Fannie Mae
• Home Builders Will Oppose Republican Tax Bill – Wall Street Journal
• Job Growth Slows Where Housing Costs a Lot – Bloomberg
• Mapping Homeowners’ Associations: Who lives in them and How do they Affect Housing Values? – University of California, Irvine

On other countries:

• [Australia] Australia’s Housing Boom Is ‘Officially Over,’ UBS Says – Bloomberg
• [Australia] Quarterly Housing & Economic Review – October 2017 Release – CoreLogic
• [Australia] As Dwelling Construction Surges Housing Turnover Falls – CoreLogic
• [Canada] Foreign buyers inch back into Vancouver housing market – Reuters
• [China] The Conventional View of China’s Problems May Be All Wrong: Q&A – Bloomberg
• [Ireland] Revised mortgage measures – a six-month snapshot – Central Bank of Ireland
• [New Zealand] New Zealand’s Foreign Home Ownership Ban Won’t Cause Price Collapse-Trade Min – New York Times, Quartz
• [United Kingdom] Home values and firm behaviour – Bank of England
• [United Kingdom] Inside London’s Huge Experiment in Predicting the Housing Future – Bloomberg
• [United Arab Emirates] Dubai: Service Me This – REIDIN

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