Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from rents, housing consumption and household location

Housing affordability, occupation and location in Australian cities and regions

Location-dominant Housing Markets: Evidence from Beijing

This paper analyzes price tradeoffs between residential quality and location factors in the Beijing housing market. Unlike most housing markets, location factors completely dominate housing prices in this market. The main reason for this appears to be the physical size of central Beijing, where travel times between different urban activity centers are comparable to typical suburban-urban commut...

Housing Affordability in Italy

From the early ‘70s the Italian families improved their welfare, raising the national dwelling standard level. During the same period, for several reasons, the rental market share on the total housing stock decreased from 40% to less that 20%. The situation was mainly caused, on the one hand, by some structural changes introduced in the leasing contracts, and, on the other hand, by some incenti...

Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities

Immigration and Housing Rents in American Cities Is there a local economic impact of immigration? Immigration pushes up rents and housing values in US destination cities. The positive association of rent growth and immigrant inflows is pervasive in time series for all metropolitan areas. I use instrumental variables based on a “shift-share” of national levels of immigration into metropolitan ar...

Heterogeneity in Housing Attribute Prices: An Interaction Approach between Housing Attributes, Absolute Location and Household Characteristics

Coefficients of housing attributes in most hedonic specifications are held constant under the assumption that each attribute has one unique marginal price throughout the entire market area. However, there’s increasing evidence that the marginal prices of some key housing attributes do vary according to particular systematic patterns. In this paper, we employed expansion methods by incorporating...