The intention of buying a home is revealed by many potential home buyers when they turn to the Internet to search for their future residence. This paper examines the extent to which future cross-sectional differences in home price changes are predicted by online search intensity in prior...

To what extent do capital market factors affect home prices? This paper examines quarterly changes in median sales prices for homes across more than 3,000 U.S. ZIP Codes in 203 metropolitan areas from 2001 to 2006 to investigate home price sensitivity to returns on U.S. stocks and bonds. The...