After rising for a decade, the U.S. homeownership rate peaked at 69 percent in the third quarter of 2006. Over the next … homeownership rate declined by 1.7 percentage points. An important question is, how much more will this rate decline over the … current economic downturn? To address this question, we propose the concept of the 'homeownership gap' as a gauge of downward …

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

Which housing characteristics are important for understanding homeownership rates? How are housing characteristics … theories of homeownership? Using the English Housing Survey, we estimate a selection model of the allocation of properties to … correlations between rent-to-price ratios and homeownership rates. These patterns are consistent with, among others, hypotheses of …

We investigate whether initial differences in speed of entry into homeownership lead to longlasting differences in …

commonly believed, lead to a substantial increase in homeownership by minorities but instead generated turnover in properties …

This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership … rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and …

lax zoning system, both encouraging residential development and an extraordinarily low homeownership rate explain why … country is homeownership attainment and the key policy to tackle this issue is the Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID). This … places the policy-induced demand increase mainly pushes up house prices. The MID only increases homeownership attainment of …