Risk and Return within the Single-Family Housing Market
The trade-off between risk and return in equity markets is well established. This paper examines the existence of the same trade-off in the single-family housing market. That market is dominated by homeowners, who constitute about two-thirds of U.S. households. For them the choice about how much housing and what house to buy is a joint consumption-investment decision. Furthermore, owner-occupied housing is by nature a lumpy investment whose risk cannot be completely diversified. Does this consumption-investment link negate the risk-return trade-off within the single-family housing market? Theory suggests the link still holds. This paper supplies empirical evidence in support of that theoretical result. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
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1999
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Authors: | Crone, Theodore M. ; Voith, Richard P. |
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Real Estate Economics. - American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - AREUEA. - Vol. 27.1999, 1, p. 63-78
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American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - AREUEA |
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