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Rent control, rent overcharge, and racial disparity

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Rent control policies have gained renewed legislative momentum in the United States, but are rent‐regulated landlords adhering to these policies? Answering this question is critical to understanding the policy's impact. Using a unique panel data set from the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (NYCHVS), we investigate noncompliance with ...
Brent W. Ambrose, Xun Bian, Ruoyu Chen, Hanchen Jiang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capitalizing flood risk protective measures in residential real estate

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study utilizes 1.4 million residential transactions incorporating flood hazard estimates derived from a nationwide elevation model and hydrological data to examine the role of flood protections to mitigate the negative impact of flood risk on home prices.
Muhammad Ramzan Kalhoro, Arne Johan Pollestad, Michael J. Seiler, Ole Jakob Sønstebø   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home foreclosure discounts in auctions without reserve prices

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article estimates foreclosure discounts in Cape Town, South Africa, where, until 2019, foreclosure auctions occurred without reserve prices. Using newly constructed data linking sheriff auction notices to the universe of property transactions, rich property characteristics, and municipal service‐request records, I document large ...
Allan Davids
wiley   +1 more source

Language, Agglomeration, and Hispanic Homeownership [PDF]

As of the fourth quarter of 2005, 76 percent of white non-Hispanic families owned homes, but only 50 percent of Hispanic families. We argue that low rates of homeownership in Hispanic communities create a self-reinforcing mechanism that contributes to ...
Stuart Rosenthal, Donald Haurin
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Appraisal and gender

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
AbstractWe test for gender differences in the real estate appraisal industry. We ask whether female appraisers evaluate different types of properties and whether they value the properties differently compared to their male counterparts. We largely do not find any statistically or economically significant differences between male and female appraisers ...
James N. Conklin, N. Edward Coulson, Moussa Diop, Ruchi Singh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing differentiation from the spatial opportunity structure perspective: an empirical study on new-generation migrants in China

The Journal of Chinese Sociology
Using data from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamics Survey, this study employs generalized structural equation modeling to examine the effects of migrants' places of origin and socioeconomic status on their destination choice and access to homeownership in ...
Xueying Mu, Can Cui, Junru Cui
doaj   +1 more source

Housing policies and market returns in China: Evidence from a novel policy index

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the relationship between housing policy interventions and market returns in China with a novel policy index. Using natural language processing techniques, we construct a sentence‐level policy index based on government policy documents from 2008 to 2024.
Siu Kei Wong, Yumou Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Affordable homeownership policy : implications for housing markets [PDF]

Affordable homeownership is a policy that is often accorded a great deal of policy attention by governments of many countries. In this paper, we examine the market implications of setting a housing price to income ratio target for a market segment by the
Sock-Yong Phang
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The sweet burden: Does homeownership improve the economic status of households?

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study utilizes household-level micro survey data from China to investigate the impact of homeownership on the economic status of households and the underlying mechanisms. The findings reveal that homeownership does not enhance the economic status of
Manyi Luo, Shihu Zhong, Jie Chen
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The relationship between Hispanic residential location and homeownership [PDF]

This article asks two basic questions. First, is homeownership more or less likely for Hispanics who choose to reside in an ethnic location; and second, is the location decision jointly or endogenously made with the homeownership decision?
Sherrie L.W. Rhine, Maude Toussaint-Comeau   +1 more
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