A firm's long-term stock returns are negatively related to past growth in housing prices in the state where the firm is located. The housing price effect is persistent, and robust to controlling for the long-term stock return reversal effect, changes in mortgage interest rates across the states,...

We document a very strong negative association between a firm's stock returns and previous housing price growth in the state where the firm is located. This relation is a long-term phenomenon, with much stronger effects at longer horizons than at shorter horizons. For the period 1979-2002, a...