In seiner jüngeren Geschichte war Deutschland mit vielen tiefgreifenden ökonomischen Krisen konfrontiert. Diese wirkten sich vollkommen unterschiedlich auf den Wohnimmobilienmarkt aus. Einige Krisen machten sich auf nationaler, andere hingegen lediglich auf regionaler Ebene bemerkbar. Manche...

Die Situation des deutschen Mietwohnungsmarkts wird aktuell gesellschaftlich breit diskutiert. Ein Nachfrageüberhang, der sich vorwiegend auf urbane Räume konzentriert, hat in den letzten Jahren zu einem deutlichen Anstieg der Mieten geführt. Da die Einwohner in Deutschland überwiegend...

Recently, there has been significant interest in the high levels of rental cost burden being experienced across the United States. Much of this scholarship has focused on rental cost burdens in larger urban areas, or at the national level, and has not explored differences in the prevalence of...

We estimate a neighborhood choice model using 2014 American Community Survey data to investigate the degree to which new housing supply can improve housing affordability. In the model, equilibrium rental rates are determined so that the number of households choosing each neighborhood is equal to...

Record-high second home buying (homeowners acquiring nonprimary residences) was a central feature of the 2000s boom, but the macroeconomic effects remain an open question partly because reliable geographic data is currently unavailable. This paper constructs local data on second home buying by...

We empirically document that banks with greater exposure to high home price-to-income ratio regions in 2005 and 2006 have higher mortgage delinquency and charge-off rates and significantly higher probabilities of failure during the last financial crisis even after controlling for capital,...

The environment for investment in housing construction has changed drastically. Rising interest rates and construction costs are leading to a signifi cant decline in investment activity. This will exacerbate the shortage on the housing market, as refugees from Ukraine also require housing on a...

In den Großstädten hat sich die Lage am Wohnungsmarkt derart zugespitzt, dass auch unkonventionelle Lösungen angestrebt werden. Der Anteil der Mietkosten am Einkommen der Stadtbevölkerung wächst und es wird schwieriger, sich eine angemessene Wohnung in der Stadt zu leisten. Vor allem die...

How does a shrinking population affect the housing market? In this study, drawing on Japan's experience, we find that there exists an asymmetric relationship between housing prices and population change. Due to the durability of housing structures, the decline in housing prices associated with...

This paper studies the US housing market using a proprietary and comprehensive dataset covering nearly 90 million residential transactions over 1998-2018. First, we document the evolution of different types of investment purchases such as those conducted by short-term buyers, out-of-state...