The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• Housing in Europe: a different continent – a continent of differences – Journal of Housing Economics
• Can Monetary Policy lean against Housing Bubbles? – University of Pretoria

On the US:

• Why the Housing Market Is Slumping Despite a Booming Economy – New York Times
• The Renovation Rebalance: How Financial Intermediaries Affect Renter Housing Costs – Harvard University
• Mortgage Leverage and House Prices – Northwestern University
• Measuring Housing Insecurity in the American Housing Survey – HUD
• What explains the homeownership gap between black and white young adults? – Urban Institute
• Rental Housing Affordability in the Southeast: Data from the Sixth District – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• 81 Percent of Homes in the San Francisco Metro Area Are Worth More Than $1 Million. That’s Not Normal. – Reason
• LendingTree Reveals the Cities with the Most Foreign-born Homeowners – LendingTree
• Housing Perspectives: How Many Homeowners May Have Missed the Window to Refinance? – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
• California Fires Only Add to Acute Housing Crisis – New York Times
• Real Estate Technology: Try, Try Again – New York Times
• The U.S. Housing Market: Despite a Demographic Push, Proceed With Caution – Pacific Union International
• Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable – City Observatory
• Redefault Risk in the Aftermath of the Mortgage Crisis: Why Did Modifications Improve More Than Self-Cures? – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities – Bloomberg
• S. Housing Starts Rise as Apartment Groundbreaking Gains – Bloomberg

On other countries:

• [Canada] Housing affordability worsens again in Q3 2018 – National Bank of Canada
• [Canada] Goodbye Vancouver. Canada’s Great Housing Boom Is Shifting North – Bloomberg
• [China] Qué son las “ciudades fantasma” de China y por qué son una pesadilla para la segunda economía mundial – BBC
• [United Kingdom] Mortgage payments to swell for first-time buyers – Financial Times

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