This paper measures the housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws in the 1960s using household …-level and census-tract data. State-level fair-housing' laws attempted to bar discrimination on the basis of race, religion, and … national origin in the sale, rental, and financing of housing, and they were the direct antecedents of the federal Fair Housing …

foreign demand affects U.S. housing markets, and uses this demand shock to estimate local price elasticities of supply. Other … countries introduced foreign-buyer taxes meant to deter Chinese housing investment beginning in 2011. We first show house prices … reversing with the onset of the U.S.–China trade war. Second, we use international tax policy changes as a U.S. housing demand …

The key stylized facts of the housing market are positive serial correlation of price changes at one year frequencies … levels within markets. We calibrate a dynamic model of housing in the spatial equilibrium tradition of Rosen and Roback to … correlation in annual house price changes and the high volatility of prices in coastal markets are the two biggest housing market …

Housing market transactions are a matter of public record and thus provide a rare opportunity to analyze the behavior …, performance, and strategies of individual investors. Using data for all housing transactions in the Los Angeles area from 1988 … investors increased sharply in the recent housing boom. These investors earned little more than the market rate of appreciation …

High and rising prices in Chinese housing markets have attracted global attention, as well as the interest of the … Chinese government and its regulators. Housing markets look very risky based on the stylized facts we document. Price …

This paper uses unique panel data covering over two million repeat-sales housing transactions from four metropolitan … areas to test for the presence of racial price differentials in the housing market. Drawing on the strengths of these data …

. However, empirical work has not found a strong relationship between housing and portfolios. We identify two reasons for the … mortgages by using differences across housing markets in average house prices and housing supply elasticities as instruments … household were to spend 10% less on its house, holding fixed wealth. We conclude that housing has substantial impacts on …

sectors. This paper is about economic behaviors that anticipate technical progress, and how they may describe the housing … price and construction boom of 2000-2006 and the bust thereafter. Specifically, I note that only a minority of housing … mortgage and real estate industries have the potential to both move housing prices and non-residential consumption in the same …