Global Housing Watch

On cross-country:

  • Regional differences: where home buyers must save over 20 years for upfront costs – KIEL Institute
  • YIMBY goes global? Unlocking Africa’s housing markets. Africa needs to house nearly a billion new urban residents by 2050. Who’s going to build it – and how will it be paid for? – Ideas in Development


Working papers and conferences:

  • How does traffic, or the fear of it, affect housing affordability? – UCLA
  • Labor Supply Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Australian Mortgage Holders – IMF
  • A Tale of Two Countries – The Real Estate Crises in 1990s Japan and Contemporary China – NBER 
  • Visual Cues and Valuation: Evidence from the Housing Market – SSRN
  • From Plot to Block: Participatory Land Use for Climate-Resilient Detached Housing in Finland – Sustainable Development
  • Drilling Down: The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on Housing Prices – The Energy Journal
  • Housing Affordability via Macroprudential Policy – Indiana University


On China:

  • How long will China’s real estate crisis last? – Brookings


On Australia and New Zealand:

  • [Australia] Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia. While rising vacancy rates caused a dip in rents and home prices, it hasn’t solved Canada’s chronically unaffordable property market – The Guardian
  • [Australia] Economic stress scares off Australian homebuyers as auction clearances fall. Houses are being pulled from auctions as vendors get cold feet amid economic uncertainty about borrowing costs – The Guardian


On other countries:  

  • [Canada] Ford government spent billions on housing initiatives yet homebuilding has declined – Fraser Institute
  • [Canada] Ontario housing will remain unaffordable without real reforms – Fraser Institute
  • [Spain] What does the growing dispersion of prices tell us about the housing market? – CaixaBank
  • [Spain] The shortage of new homes continues to strain Spain’s housing market – CaixaBank
  • [United Arab Emirates] UAE Residential Property Price Report 2026 March – REIDIN
  • [United Kingdom] ‘We’re trapped’: despair for sellers as Iran war knocks confidence in UK housing market. Estate agents say rising mortgage costs have created a mood of fear, with Canterbury among the cities being hit – The Guardian
  • [United Kingdom] Higher-income households benefited most from Help to Buy, thinktank finds. Analysis by IFS shows George Osborne’s mortgage schemes launched in 2013 had little effect on social mobility – The Guardian

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