Academic research, government inquiries, and press accounts show extensive mortgage fraud during the housing boom of …

Tax benefits to owner-occupied housing provide incentives for housing consumption, offsetting weaker disincentives of … parameterized model, and determine the consequences of various tax reforms. Reductions in housing tax benefits generally reduce …. The most efficient policy would eliminate most tax benefits to housing and index taxes to local wage levels. …

surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban economics and the development of efficient housing … policy. This paper measures the capitalization of housing market spillovers by studying the sudden and largely unanticipated … control's removal produced large, positive, and robust spillovers onto the price of never-controlled housing from nearby …

We investigate the effects of wildfires on risk perceptions by quantifying the impact of severe wildfires on housing … provides a connection between changes in underlying risk perceptions and the observed differences in housing price and quantity …

We analyze the prices of owner-occupied housing in 97 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2011. Our tests indicate that …

of regulation, most studies have found substantial effects on the housing market. In particular, regulation appears to … raise house prices, reduce construction, reduce the elasticity of housing supply, and alter urban form. Other research has …

Housing markets experience substantial price volatility, short term price change momentum and mean reversion of prices … bubble. In this paper, we review the stylized facts of housing bubbles and discuss theories that can potentially explain … housing market, such as intensive search and short selling constraints, to explain the stylized facts. Cheap credit provides a …