The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Residents’ revenge: how citizens are taking on city developers – Financial Times
• Global Residential Cities Index-Q4 2018 – Knight Frank
• Impact of weak substitution between owning and renting a dwelling on housing market – Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
• A new housing ecosystem: $3.8 trillion under one roof – McKinsey

On the US:

• The Coming Trump Housing Crisis – Wall Street Journal
• Young businesses are more vulnerable to housing market shocks – University of Chicago
• Netflix series hypes the Sunset Strip’s luxury real estate sizzle – Los Angeles Times
• Senate Confirms Trump Pick to Lead Housing-Finance Overhaul – Wall Street Journal
• The Political Battle Over California’s Suburban Dream – Citylab
• Housing Sentiment Surges Just in Time for Spring Homebuying Season – Fannie Mae
• Slowing U.S. Housing Sector Still Shaped by Great Recession – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• The Rise of the Radical Suburbs – Architect
• Chipping Away at the Mortgage Deduction – Wall Street Journal

On other countries:

• [Canada] Chinese Real-Estate Investors Wary of Vancouver Head to Toronto – Bloomberg
• [Canada] Canadian Home Building Rebounds From Deep Freeze: Housing Update – Bloomberg
• [China] China’s Easing of Residency Requirements Could Boost Cooling Property Market – Bloomberg
• [Czech Republic] Czech Republic’s housing structure – ING
• [Germany] Housing for the People – Jacobin
• [Hong Kong] Hong Kong plans to house 1 million people on artificial islands – World Economic Forum
• [Lithuania] Lithuania’s modest house price rises – Global Property Guide
• [Netherlands] ING: Expats and foreign students raise Amsterdam house prices – ING
• [Romania] Romania’s housing market cooling – Global Property Guide
• [Spain] Spain’s housing market continues to grow stronger – Global Property Guide
• [South Africa] Johannesburg’s hipster gentrification project is at risk of crumbling – Quartz
• [Sweden] Sweden’s house price boom is officially over – Global Property Guide
• [United Kingdom] Construction Sector: Modernisation and Sustainable Housing Supply – UK Parliament
• [United Kingdom] HBF Policy Conference 2019: ‘Confronting the housing crisis’, John Stewart memorial presentation – London School of Economics