The Unassuming Economist

Links to the week’s top housing market stories.

Cross Country

• Steady Rise In House Prices Points To Growth In Confidence – Forbes
• The UK’s Broken Housing Market – Policy Exchange
• Slash stamp duty for pensioners to boost housing market, Reeves urged – The Telegraph
• Rising House Sale Prices in Greece Outpace Most of Europe, Eurostat Reports – Greek City Times
• China new home prices fall at fastest pace in 9 years, more support needed – Reuters
• China June new house prices -4.5% y/y (prior -3.9%) – Forexlive

US

• The Best Plan for Housing Is to Plan Less – New York Times
• Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-July 2024 – CalculatedRisk
• 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in June – CalculatedRisk
• Gentrification as a housing problem – Works in Progress
• Are YIMBYs Wrong about the Housing Crisis? – Aziz Sunderji
• Household Wealth Gains Are a Tailwind to Consumer Spending – Apollo.com
• Secret #66 – The Housing Wealth Effect is a Double-Edged, Lopsided Sword – John Wake
• Housing Finance Watch (Weeks 27 & 28, 2024) – American Enterprise Institute
• REMODELING SPENDING TO TICK UP THROUGH MID-YEAR 2025 – Harvard JCHS
• Here’s why international buyers are pulling way back from the U.S. housing market – CNBC
• US housing market is turning more buyer-friendly – Yahoo Finance