The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• House prices and rents went up in Q3 2025 – Eurostat
• House prices up by 5.1% in the euro area – Eurostat
• Trump’s planned limits on US property investing could spur foray into UK housing market. Ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes in US raises concerns institutions could deepen housing crisis on Britain – The Guardian

Working papers and conferences:

• The Global Macroprudential Database – IMF
• New evidence on the resilience benefit of borrower-based measures when interest rates go up – VoxEU
• Aging and Housing Returns – NBER
• Climate Policies in the Housing Market – Paris School of Economics
• House Prices, Fertility Rates, and Homeownership: Evidence from The UK – SSRN
• Heterogeneous Selection of Price Spillover Channels in Housing Markets – SSRN
• Measuring Housing Market Slack – SSRN
• Mapping excess housing demand using big search data – SSRN

On Australia and New Zealand:

• [Australia] It’s getting easier to build a new home – for now. The price gap between building a home and buying an existing one – which has stopped a lot of new projects – has narrowed. But it may not last. – Financial Review
• [New Zealand] New Zealand House Prices Set for Slight Gains in 2026, BNZ Says – Bloomberg

On other countries:  

• [Canada] Canadian Housing Market in Winter Freeze as Prices, Sales Decline – Bloomberg
• [Canada] Canadians Are Furious After Real Estate Funds Lock Up Their Money. Funds stung by the property downturn limit client withdrawals, after assuring ordinary investors they were safe – Bloomberg
• [Hong Kong] Hong Kong property: Citi lifts forecast after Morgan Stanley’s upgrade – South China Morning Post
• [Singapore] Singapore Home Sales Hit Multi-Year High Despite Recent Lull – Bloomberg
• [United Arab Emirates] UAE Residential Property Price Report – December 2025 – REIDIN
• [United Arab Emirates] Dubai Residential Project Launch Tracker – REIDIN
• [United Kingdom] UK house prices rise by least since March 2024, Halifax data shows – Reuters
• [United Kingdom] Homes on sale in England should be tested for lead, says water watchdog. Call by Drinking Water Inspectorate comes after FT revealed millions of people may be unknowingly exposed to toxic metal – FT
• [United Kingdom] How the 1990s and 2000s property price boom reduced social mobility – Institute for Fiscal Studies
• [United Kingdom] Britain’s 90s Housing Boom Handed Rich Kids Best Jobs, IFS Says – Bloomberg
• [United Kingdom] Multimillion-Pound London Homes Hit by Sudden, Gaping Cracks. Londoners face a dangerous acceleration of subsidence risks, as record temperatures fueled by climate change destabilize the clay foundations on which most of the UK capital’s homes are built. – Bloomberg
• [United Kingdom] U.K. House Prices Expected to Rise But London Likely to Straggle. Zoopla report shows that average house prices are likely to increase 1.5% – Wall Street Journal
• [United Kingdom] Share of London homes sold at a loss higher than anywhere else in England. Lossmaking sales are the latest sign of weakness in the capital’s property market – FT