The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Property still beats a pension, say retirement savers – Financial Times
• A Driverless Future Threatens the Laws of Real Estate – Bloomberg
• Yes to Affordable Housing in My Backyard – Project Syndicate

On the US:

• Booming Home Prices Spur Spending on Public Education – NBER
• America’s New Metropolitan Landscape: Pockets Of Dense Construction In A Dormant Suburban Interior – BuildZoom
• Is Rent Growth Finally Slowing? – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
• America’s Other Housing Crisis: Undercrowded Suburbs – The Atlantic
• The Affordable Housing Crisis Is About to Get Worse – New York Times
• Navigating the Turbulent Economic Waters of the 2007 Great Recession and the Crash of the Housing Market – University of South Florida
• The Towers Came Down, and With Them the Promise of Public Housing – New York Times Magazine
• The Impact of TOM on Prices in the US Housing Market – The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
• A Bid to Solve California’s Housing Crisis Could Redraw How Cities Grow – Wired
• Tech Wealth Turns Attention to Affordable Housing in Seattle – Wall Street Journal

On other countries:

• [Canada] Canadian mortgages held by foreigners grow, says housing agency – Reuters
• [Canada] Home Equity Extraction and the Boom-Bust Cycle in Consumption and Residential Investment – Bank of Canada
• [Canada] New CMHC study sheds light on rising house prices – CMHC
• [Canada] Canada’s housing market flirts with disaster – Financial Times
• [China] Beyond homeownership: Housing conditions, housing support and rural migrant urban settlement intentions in China – Cities
• [China] China developers retreat from Hong Kong property market – Financial Times
• [Germany] Demographic Changes and House Prices: A case study of the German Detached Houses – Journal of Regional & Socio-Economic Issues
• [Nigeria] Sub-standard housing and slum clearance in developing countries: A case study of Nigeria – Habitat International
• [Norway] Can monetary policy revive the housing market in a crisis? Evidence from high-resolution data on Norwegian transactions – Journal of Housing Economics
• [South Africa] Drought Dulls Thirst for Some of Africa’s Most Expensive Homes – Bloomberg
• [Sweden] Banks Pile Into Sweden’s Housing Market – Bloomberg
• [Turkey] Determinants of Residential Real Estate Prices in Turkey – European Journal of Business and Social Sciences
• [United Kingdom] UK house prices: Looking far into the past and into the future – VOX
• [United Kingdom] A Day of Reckoning for UK Housing – New Economics Foundation
• [United Kingdom] Sellers accept big discounts on top-end London property – Financial Times

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