The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Global House Price Index – Q4 2017 – Knight Frank
• 2018 Emerging Models in Real Estate Report – Mike DelPrete

On the US:

• The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco – NBER
• Shocker! Rent Control Makes Housing Scarcer and More Expensive – Reason
• Eliminating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without legislation – American Enterprise Institute
• Income Doesn’t Determine Whether People Buy Homes, for Now – Zillow
• De Blasio Bolsters Affordable Housing, but at What Price? – New York Times
• NYC perseveres with affordable housing agenda despite costly obstacles – Curbed
• Home sales falling in the U.S. – but not for the reason you think – Global Property Guide
• The Rise and Fall of American Public Housing – Citylab
• In California, Momentum Builds for Radical Action on Housing – Citylab
• State and Local Health and Housing Integration Projects – Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• The mortgage market risk no one’s talking about, plus a proposal to redesign the system – Brookings

On other countries:

• [Germany] Landlords Shed No Tears Over Broken German Housing Market – Wall Street Journal
• [Nambia] House Prices in Namibia – IMF
• [New Zealand] Funding cost pass-through to mortgage rates – Reserve Bank of New Zealand
• [New Zealand] New Zealand to hit property speculators with taxes on capital gains – Global Property Guide
• [Switzerland] That Zurich Lakeside Property May Finally Become More Affordable – Bloomberg
• [United Kingdom] The housing market in the macroeconomy – National Institute of Economic and Social Research
• [United Kingdom] Detailed household expenditure for mortgage-paying households, by gross income quintile group, UK, financial year ending 2015 to financial year ending 2017 – Office for National Statistics

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