The real estate market is recognized as a fertile ground for tax violations. Specifically, reporting a price lower than the true transaction price in order to avoid tax payments is a prevalent technique. We propose an empirical method for identifying housing transactions that are suspected of...

This paper explores the housing affordability distance to a superstar city. Affordability distance is defined in terms of the increment to household income required to consume a quality- and consumption-adjusted housing unit in a proximate superstar city. The analysis focuses on Tel Aviv,...

We introduce a new measure of housing affordability that adjusts for normative variation in housing consumption. The new measure is computed using extensive micro-data from Israel for the 1998–2015 period. Findings suggest sharp declines in Israel quality- and consumption-adjusted...

This research employs data from a natural experiment to assess the effect of an improved price information shock on subsequent real estate transaction price dispersion. While transaction data in the Israeli real estate market had never been open to the public, in 2010 an Israeli court ordered...

This paper explores preferences and choices in the real estate market from a personality perspective. First, we employ micro-level data on individual scores on the Big Five personality test and personal financial real estate preferences to evaluate the role of personality in individual real...

This paper examines the effect of a currency changeover on prices. A parsimonious model shows that, during a period of currency changeover, sellers and buyers conversely opt for the currency dominating the negotiation based on exchange rate fluctuations between the preceding and the new currency...

Imperfect and costly information generates price dispersion in the market. This study employs data on housing assets listed for sale on a leading online classified home service in Israel to assess the effect of quality-adjusted housing price dispersion on time-on-market. We develop a model by...