The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Comparative Analysis of Newly-Built Housing Quality in Poland and Lithuania – De Gruyter

On the US:

• The Hazards of Concentrating Wealth in Homeownership – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• A Bad Start on Reforming Fannie and Freddie – Bloomberg
• The Corrupt Politics of Low-Income Housing – Reason
• Fannie Mae will ease financial standards for mortgage applicants next month – Washington Post
• How the latest affordable housing policy benefits homeowners and realtors, not first-time buyers – American Enterprise Institute
• The Great Urban Housing Solution That Has No Good Name – The Atlantic
• Remodeling Market to March Higher in 2018 – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

On other countries:

• [China] Housing market sentiment and intervention effectiveness: Evidence from China – Emerging Markets Review
• [China] Is there a housing bubble in China? – Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
• [China] China’s Hot Housing Market Begins to Cool – Wall Street Journal
• [Czech Republic] Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children – The Czech Academy of Sciences
• [Iceland] Discrimination in the Housing Market as an Impediment to European Labour Force Integration: The Case of Iceland – Lund University
• [India] India’s property slowdown puts developers in crosshairs – Financial Times
• [Italy] Matching and Credit Conditions: Evidence from the Italian Housing Market Survey – Luiss Lab of European Economics
• [Singapore] Curb Your Enthusiasm for Singapore Property – Bloomberg
• [United Kingdom] Why Britain’s buy-to-let boom is over – Economist
• [United Kingdom] Housing in London: Addressing the Supply Crisis – London School of Economics
• [United Kingdom] What will happen to house prices in 2018? – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] Divorce, Separation, and Housing Changes: A Multiprocess Analysis of Longitudinal Data from England and Wales – Demography

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