Global Housing Watch

On cross-country:

  • BIS residential property price statistics, Q4 2025. Real global house prices fell by 0.6% year on year (yoy) at the end of 2025. Real prices were almost stable in advanced economies, while they continued to decrease in emerging market economies, especially in Asia. – BIS
  • Global House Price Index: 1, 5 & 10 Year Changes by Country – Global Property Guide
  • An Extreme Housing Bubble’s Cautionary Tale for the Rest of the World – Bloomberg


Working papers and conferences:

  • Industrial Concentration, Property Values, and Municipal Bond Spreads – NBER
  • The Heterogeneous Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy – NBER 
  • Rental Prices and the Cost of Living in the United States, 1914-2006 – Philadelphia Fed
  • Failing the Threshold: The Impact of Rising Interest Rates on Mortgage Borrowing – St. Louis Fed


On Australia and New Zealand:

  • [Australia] Insights From New Data on Australian Housing Investors – Reserve Bank of Australia
  • [Australia] How Australia’s Housing Market Became So Out of Reach. Ballooning property prices and rents have caused a housing affordability crisis in Australia. Can the government’s planned changes to property taxes fix the problem? – Bloomberg
  • [Australia] Can Australia make housing more affordable without hurting tech start-ups? – The Straits Times
  • [Australia] Australia’s property lobby would have us believe investors are selfless public servants. It’s just profiteering. Labor is right to wind back a system where taxpayers spend billions lining the pockets of those who treat housing like an asset class, not a basic need – The Guardian
  • [New Zealand] The World’s Most Extreme Housing Boom Is Now Roiling an Entire Economy. New Zealand’s downturn shows the difficult trade-offs governments face in trying to restore home affordability. – Bloomberg
  • [New Zealand] Why New Zealand’s Housing Bubble Burst – Bloomberg


On other countries:  

  • [Cyprus] Cyprus’s Residential Property Market Analysis 2026 – Global Property Guide
  • [Hong Kong] Hong Kong’s Residential Property Market Analysis 2026 – Global Property Guide
  • [Italy] Italy’s Residential Property Market Analysis 2026 – Global Property Guide
  • [Georgia] Georgia’s Residential Property Market Analysis 2026 – Global Property Guide
  • [Switzerland] Housing squeeze in Swiss boom region fuels support for population cap – Reuters
  • [Taiwan] Taiwan’s Residential Real Estate Market Analysis 2026 – Global Property Guide
  • [United Kingdom] Time to ‘do the splits’ on your mortgage? Overstretched borrowers are finding ways to alleviate the pain of higher interest rates – FT

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