The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Global Home Price Growth under Pressure – Fitch Ratings
• House Prices to Fall in Several APAC Markets in 2019 – Fitch Ratings

On the US:

• The Dream Revisited – Columbia University Press
• Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability – NYU Furman Center
• In Lieu of Gifts, Please Make a Down Payment on Our New Home – Citylab
• Could High-Speed Rail Ease California’s Housing Crisis? See Japan. – Citylab
• More Housing Would Mean Cheaper Housing – Wall Street Journal
• California housing crisis podcast: Where’s the home building for the middle class? – Los Angeles Times
• AEI Housing Market Indicators release on October 2018 data – American Enterprise Institute
• Mortgage Risk Premiums during the Housing Bubble – The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
• Big drop in US homebuilders’ shares could spell trouble – Financial Times
• Americans stopped buying homes in 2018, mortgage lenders are getting crushed, and an economic storm could be brewing – Business Insider
• Two Lawsuits Show What a Hot Mess California Housing Politics Is Right Now – Reason

On other countries:

• [China] Chinese Exiting U.S. Real Estate as Beijing Directs Money Back to Shore Up Economy – Wall Street Journal
• [India] Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and real estate market in Mumbai, India – Brookings
• [Lebanon] Lebanese Central Bank to Reinstate Subsidized Housing Loans – Bloomberg
• [New Zealand] New Zealand Vowed 100,000 New Homes to Ease Crunch. So Far It Has Built 47. – New York Times
• [Singapore] Singapore Is Seeing an Unprecedented Mortgage Slowdown – Bloomberg
• [United Kingdom] What goes up must come down: modelling the mortgage cycle – Bank of England
• [United Kingdom] London property transactions drop to decade low – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] Call for rethink on UK planning rules for housing  – Financial Times

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