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 …

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 …

homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent … deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the … U.S. Blacks experienced significantly lower increase in homeownership than the whites but highest exit from …