The Unassuming Economist

On the US:

• Jon Gray: Blackstone’s real estate chief turns heir apparent – Financial Times
• The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending – Federal Reserve Bank of New York

On other countries:

• [Australia] Housing Market Imbalances in Australia: Development, Prospects, and Policies – IMF
• [Australia] Household Indebtedness and Mortgage Stress – Reserve Bank of Australia
• [Canada] Canada province readies housing plan amid affordability crisis – Reuters
• [Canada] British Columbia takes aim at housing speculation – Reuters
• [Canada] Vancouver’s Hot Housing Market Gets Tougher for Wealthy Chinese – Bloomberg
• [China] Housing Price, Consumption, and Financial Market: Evidence from Urban Household Data in China – ASCE
• [Malaysia] Unsold residential units in Malaysia at highest level for a decade – Global Property Guide
• [Spain] Mortgage Finance and Culture – IZA Institute of Labor Economics
• [Switzerland] Geneva’s ‘safe-haven’ houses look vulnerable – Financial Times
• Out of Sync Subnational Housing Markets and Macroprudential Policies – CESifo Group Munich
• [United Kingdom] UK’s Housing Market – IMF
• [United Kingdom] House prices and rents in the UK – mainly macro
• [United Kingdom] London, Residential Market Outlook, Spring 2018 – Cluttons
• [United Kingdom] A Fix to the U.K. Housing Crunch: Have More Money – Citylab

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