On cross-country:
- House prices and rents went up in Q4 2024 – Eurostat
- When investors move in: new dynamics in European housing markets – ECB
- Public Housing Is the Only Cure for Europe’s Housing Crisis. Throughout Europe, states have spent decades running down the structures of public investment and planning that once made housing accessible for working-class people. A recharged model of public housing is essential to address the resulting crisis. – Jacobin
Working papers and conferences:
- Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness – NBER
- Sorting to Expensive Cities – NBER
- Revisiting housing asset pricing: uncertainty and business-cycle factors in US state-level housing markets – IDEAS
- Affordable housing, unaffordable credit? Concentration and high-cost lending for manufactured homes – BIS
- Homeowners care about inflation, renters less so – VoxEU
- Call for papers: PSE 2025 Conference – Housing affordability: what is new? – Institute of Public Finance
On Australia and New Zealand:
- [Australia] Election 2025: Evaluating the housing policies – Grattan Institute
- [Australia] Market chaos threatens housing recovery: analysts – Financial Review
- [Australia] A grab bag of campaign housing policies. But will they fix the affordability crisis beyond the election? – The Conversation
- [Australia] Australia’s median home value has increased by about $230,000 in past five years, data shows. House prices have jumped 39.1% in the five years to March largely due to demand-supply imbalances, CoreLogic says – The Guardian
- [Australia] Housing affordability is a problem for Australian foreign policy. A massive mortgage reduces our willingness to take risks, and that can include anything from travel to investing overseas. – Lowy Institute
On other countries:
- [Argentina] Argentina’s zombie mortgage market is coming back to life – Reuters
- [Canada] Assessing the British Columbia Government’s Initiatives to Make Housing More Affordable – Fraser Institute
- [Canada] ‘Deeply disappointed’: Ontario ministers warn of rising housing costs in U.S. due to softwood lumber duties – Bloomberg
- [Germany] House prices in city centers fall more sharply than in other neighborhoods – KIEL
- [Ireland] House prices in Ireland continue to rise as shortage drives demand higher. Sherry FitzGerald says second-hand home prices rose 2.3% between January and March – The Irish Times
- [Mauritius] Mauritius (National) Property Price Index: Houses and Apartments – Global Property Guide
- [Spain] Improving housing Crisis del alquiler en Europa: las grandes ciudades españolas lideran las subidas de los precios de habitaciones y estudios. La crisis de los alquileres se ha extendido por toda Europa pero en ningún lugar los precios suben tanto como en grandes ciudades españolas como Madrid, Barcelona o Valencia – El Mundo
- [Spain] Spain tackles housing ‘social emergency’ as rents double in a decade – BBC
- [Spain] Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis. Organisers say 150,000 joined protest in Madrid urging the government to ‘end the housing racket’ and to demand access to affordable housing – The Guardian
- [Spain] US buyers pay highest prices to snap up Spanish property – Reuters
- [United Kingdom] Should young people raid their pensions to buy a property? Allowing Gen Z early access to retirement savings is not going to build more houses – FT
- [United Kingdom] UK mortgages: warning over big fees as homebuying season arrives. The sums lenders charge to secure the best rates have risen in the past five years – and can make a loan much more expensive – The Guardian
- [United Kingdom] How looser affordability rules may widen home ownership in the UK. Mortgage lenders encouraged by regulator to loosen affordability tests so would-be homebuyers can borrow more – The Guardian
- [United Kingdom] Mortgage payment shock adds to strain on UK consumers. Rate increase comes at a time when borrowers are already having to tighten their belts – FT
- [United Kingdom] ‘Completely disproportionate’: UK tenants feel the bite of ‘pet rent’. Many pet-owning renters are asked to pay surcharges – but the upcoming renters reform bill will require landlords to reconsider their stance – The Guardian
- [United Kingdom] UK house prices fall as market feels tax break hangover – Reuters
- [United Kingdom] UK house prices slide after rush to beat stamp duty changes. Average price fell by 0.5% in March to £296,699, the steepest decline since March last year, Halifax says – The Guardian
- [United Kingdom] UK house prices fall unexpectedly in March. The 0.5% contraction according to Halifax contrasts with economists’ bets of a 0.1% rise – FT
- [United Kingdom] UK Housing Market Risks Being Derailed by Trade War, RICS Says – Bloomberg