In this paper, I quantify the effect of buyers' uncertainty about a home's quality on its pricing and liquidity. I first develop a parsimonious model of home sale in which buyers learn about the home's quality from a walkthrough and from the home's days-on-market. Quality uncertainty distorts...

This paper studies the pricing implications of financial uncertainty on housing markets. Out-of-sample tests show that the exposure to financial uncertainty predicts the cross-sectional variation in market returns. Housing markets with a more negative financial uncertainty beta imply higher...