The Unassuming Economist

On cross-country:

• The Total Risk Premium Puzzle – NBER
• Book review: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud – New Geography
• New driveway? Home improvements lead AI to hidden gentrification – Reuters
• Inclusionary Housing Policies in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Stuttgart, Germany: The importance of Norms and Institutions – Nordic Journal of Surveying and Real Estate Research
• We don’t have enough to buy a house. How can we invest with similar returns to real estate? – Globe and Mail

On the US:

• The Fed has exacerbated America’s new housing bubble – Financial Times
• The Affordable Home Crisis Continues, But Bold New Plans May Help – Citylab
• US new home sales fall more than forecast in January – Financial Times
• RE Lending Risks Monitor – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices? – MIT
• Mortgage Loss Severities: What Keeps Them So High? – Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Part 3: Renting Vs. Buying. How Important Is Owning A Home? – wbur
• Bay Area leads charge on fixing housing crisis. Will it work for the rest of California? – Los Angeles Times
• Storper Challenges Blanket Upzoning as Solution to Housing Crisis – UCLA
• How Do Homeowners Spend Their Remodeling Dollars? – Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies

On other countries:

• [Australia] Property, Debt and Financial Stability – Reserve Bank of Australia
• [Australia] Australia’s falling home prices not yet a threat to banks: RBA – Reuters
• [Australia] Australian Housing Slide Deepens as RBA Worries About Consumers – Bloomberg
• [Australia] Australia’s Housing Slump Isn’t Fazing Mortgage Bond Investors – Bloomberg
• [Australia] How Do Crime Rates Affect Property Prices? – Infrastructure Victoria
• [Australia] Foreign investment in Australian residential properties: House prices and growth of housing construction sector – University of Technology, Melbourne
• [Canada] The Age of Leverage – Bank of Canada
• [Canada] Previous housing data understated amount of non-resident buyers in Vancouver and Toronto – Globe and Mail
• [Canada] Trudeau Targets Home-Buying Millennials With Equity Plan – Bloomberg
• [Canada] Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbours’ property values – University of British Columbia
• [China] Housing Policy and Economic Growth in China – Reserve Bank of Australia
• [China] Deeper Cracks in China’s Housing Foundations – Wall Street Journal
• [China] China new house prices pick up pace in February – Financial Times
• [Czech Republic] Czech apartment price rise continues – ING
• [Iceland] Iceland’s house prices rises decelerating rapidly – Global Property Guide
• [India] As property prices rise, more Indian women claim inheritance – Reuters
• [Ireland] Irish house prices cool further as wider inflation remains muted – Reuters
• [Italy] Renaissance Venice had its own “Airbnb problem”—and a solution … – Quartz
• [Japan] Japan’s Regional Land Prices Rise for First Time Since Property Bubble Burst in ’90s – Bloomberg
• [Malaysia] Housing prices in peninsular Malaysia: supported by income, foreign inflow or speculation? – Tunku Abdul Rahman University College
• [Mexico] Mexico’s housing market is strengthening – Global Property Guide
• [Netherlands] Amsterdam Is Trying to Crack Down on Its Rentals Market – Bloomberg
• [Slovak Republic] Slovak Republic’s house price rises continue – Global Property Guide
• [Switzerland] World’s Lowest Interest Rate Brews Trouble for Swiss Property – Bloomberg
• [United Kingdom] Revealed: the fastest ‘double your money’ years for UK property – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] Properties, prices and pesky Instagrammers – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] Elephant and Castle shifts from social housing to ‘build to rent’ – Financial Times
• [United Kingdom] How does the land supply system affect the business of UK speculative housebuilding? – UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence
• [Venezuela] Crisis en Venezuela: la tentadora oferta de viviendas de lujo a precio de saldo (y qué tiene que ver el “efecto Guaidó”) – BBC