A capital influx into local housing markets would be expected to increase house prices, but the spillover effect onto rental prices is theoretically ambiguous. I estimate both price impacts in U.S. residential housing markets using data from a boom in real estate purchases by buyers from China,...

We combine the standard Campbell and Shiller (1988) present-value model with the classical user cost of housing model to decompose the rental yield into three components: expected future rent growth, cost of capital and risk premium of owning versus renting. We then apply a quarterly dataset of...

The influx of rich real-estate buyers into local housing markets would increase house prices, but the spillover effect onto rental prices is theoretically ambiguous. I estimate rich buyers’ impact during the Chinese buying boom in US residential housing markets, with $200 billion of purchases...

A capital influx into local housing markets would be expected to increase house prices, but the spillover effect onto rental prices is theoretically ambiguous. I estimate both price impacts in U.S. residential housing markets using data from a boom in real estate purchases by buyers from China,...