Barr, Jason; Smith, Fred; Kulkarni, Sayali - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2015
Using vacant land sales, we construct a land value index for Manhattan from 1950 to 2013. We find three major cycles (1950 to 1977, 1977 to 1993, and 1993 to 2007), with land values reaching their nadir in 1977, two years after the city’s fiscal crises. Overall, we find the average annual real...