On cross-country:
- Why holiday rentals are winning the war for Europe’s city centres. Residents of tourist hotspots have long demanded that Airbnb-style letting platforms be banned. But booking numbers in Europe — and housing costs — are still rising – FT
- Recent surges in house prices have affected many — but not all — countries in the European Union – Our World in Data
Working papers and conferences:
- Macroprudential and monetary policy tightening: more than a double whammy? – BIS
- Selected Macroeconomic and Social Aspects of Housing Affordability – Intereconomics
- Housing Supply and Housing Affordability – NBER
- Does Homeownership Matter? The Long-Term Consequences of Losing a House during the Great Recession – NBER
- Reexamining Lackluster Productivity Growth in Construction – Regional Science and Urban Economics
- Credit supply, housing demand, and rising home prices. A change in veteran home loans can help explain home price dynamics – Minneapolis Fed
- Industrical Organization of Housing Markets, Fall 2025 – NBER
On Australia and New Zealand:
- [Australia] Could Trump’s tariffs lead to another house price boom in Australia? Sharemarket volatility and fear of recession can scare property investors, but lower borrowing rates may push up home values – The Guardian
- [Australia] Australia’s looming election brings housing crisis into focus – BBC
- [Australia] Election cons will fuel higher house prices and debt – Financial Review
- [Australia] The housing policies of both major parties are bad for Australia’s aspiring homebuyers. The plans would exacerbate the problem they say they are trying to solve – rising property prices – The Guardian
- [Australia] Leaders brush off warnings from economists that duelling housing policies will drive up prices in Australia. Neither Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton say they want house prices to fall, as experts warn new promises could worsen affordability crisis – The Guardian
- [Australia] Home ownership is slipping out of reach for many Australians. Will the major parties’ promises make a difference? Neither Labor nor the Coalition’s policies will solve the housing crisis. At least they are competing over who can get the most homes built – The Guardian
- [Australia] Australia does not have enough tradies to fulfill Labor’s housing promise, experts say. Construction industry already faces shortfall of 80,000 workers as government vows to build 250,000 homes a year for four years – The Guardian
- [Australia] Why is it so hard for everyone to have a house in Australia? – The Conversation
- [Australia] Liberals want house prices to grow slower than wages – Financial Review
- [Australia] Not enough houses are being built in Australia, and Labor has promised 1.2m more. Here’s what needs to happen. ABS data shows current rates of construction unlikely to meet government’s five-year Housing Accord target – or estimates of demand – The Guardian
- [Australia] Why working hard no longer buys you a home in Australia. We need to end the federalism disconnect and enable states to strip away their own government-imposed costs on new housing. – Financial Review
- [Australia] Australia’s housing policy looks to fix symptom, not cause – Oxford Economics
- [Australia] Excuse my cynicism, but after 25 years of the same housing policies, could Australian leaders try something else? First homeowners’ grants have long been the go-to policy by state and federal governments. And yet here we are in 2025 with a worsening housing affordability crisis – The Guardian
- [Australia] How Australia’s Housing Market Became So Out of Reach. Ballooning property prices and rents are causing serious housing affordability problems in Australia. So how bad is it? And how did it get to this point? – Bloomberg
- [Australia] Adelaide becomes fifth Australian capital where median house value exceeds $1m. Across Australia, home prices grew at slowest rate in two years and unit prices fell in March, Domain says – The Guardian
- [Australia] Half of Australian landlords sell their investments after 2 years, adding to renters’ insecurity – The Conversation
- [New Zealand] House prices down, listings up: Why Real Estate Institute is feeling positive – RNZ
On other countries:
- [Canada] Canadians Are Cashing Out Their American Vacation Homes. Political uncertainty, coupled with a weak Canadian dollar, is driving owners to sell properties they’ve had for decades – Wall Street Journal
- [Canada] Stressed and Sidelined Homebuyers Start to Strain Canada Economy – Bloomberg
- [Canada] Housing starts for March 2025 – CMHC
- [Canada] Canada: Housing prices continue to fall in March – National Bank of Canada
- [India] Q1 home sales dip 19%, less than 1 lakh residential units sold in Jan-March. Against the backdrop of worsening geopolitical concerns that can deeply impact the domestic job market, sales fell in all key residential markets except Bengaluru and Chennai – Business Standard
- [Ireland] House prices now nearly 20% higher than at peak of pre-crash property bubble in 2007. Some 3,245 dwellings were purchased in February, down 14 per cent from January, CSO says – The Irish Times
- [Singapore] Singapore Home Sales Cool as Tariffs Threaten Market Rally – Bloomberg
- [United Kingdom] Barclays joins other lenders to cut mortgage rate below 4%. Brokers warn some lenders might be slow to pass on lower prices due to uncertainty around trade policy – FT
- [United Kingdom] Tariff turbulence: Our first thoughts on what this means for the UK housing market – Savills
- [United Kingdom] The UK’s Housing Affordability Crisis is Easing. It may not feel like it, but houses in the UK are steadily becoming more affordable. – Bloomberg
- [United Kingdom] UK property asking prices up 1.3% on year, Rightmove says – Reuters
- [United Kingdom] London Property Faces Hit From Trade War, Rightmove Says – Bloomberg
- [United Kingdom] UK house prices rose by most in over two years in February, official data shows – Reuters