The paper explores the housing market, urban densification, and government policy interventions due to COVID-19 in Turkey. From 1980 to 2019, the share of urban population in Turkey increased from 43.78% to 75.14% (UN DESA, 2018) and simultaneously the housing production has been increased more...

I use daily data from fifty major cities to investigate the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing market in the United States. I find that starting from the second half of March, 2020, new home listings and pending home sales started to decrease. By mid-April, certain markets...