Individual sales prices and local vacancy rates in the housing market pose a natural analogy to the wage curve, a popular concept in labor economics that describes how individual wages decrease with higher local unemployment. While housing search and matching models and housing externalities...

We study the joint evolution of prices and rents of residential property. After constructing rent and price indices for renter- and owner-occupied properties, we decompose the change in the price of occupant-owned property into (1) changes in rent, (2) changes in the relative prices of investor-...

Der Immobilienmarkt wurde in den letzten Jahren internationaler. Zunehmend versuchen institutionelle Investoren und wohlhabende Privatpersonen über ausländische Immobilienanlagen Rendite- und Diversifikationsvorteile zu realisieren. Einen besonderen Anstieg der Investitionen in Deutschland gab...

We investigate the impact of Great Recession policies in California that substantially increased lender pecuniary and time costs of foreclosure. We estimate that the California Foreclosure Prevention Laws (CFPLs) prevented 250,000 California foreclosures (a 20% reduction) and created $300...