Arbeitspapier

Assessing high house prices: Bubbles, fundamentals, and misperceptions

We construct measures of the annual cost of single-family housing for 46 metropolitan areas in the United States over the last 25 years and compare them with local rents and incomes as a way of judging the level of housing prices. Conventional metrics like the growth rate of house prices, the price-to-rent ratio, and the price-to-income ratio can be misleading because they fail to account both for the time series pattern of real long-term interest rates and predictable differences in the long-run growth rates of house prices across local markets. These factors are especially important in recent years because house prices are theoretically more sensitive to interest rates when rates are already low, and more sensitive still in those cities where the long-run rate of house price growth is high. During the 1980s, our measures show that houses looked most overvalued in many of the same cities that subsequently experienced the largest house price declines. We find that from the trough of 1995 to 2004, the cost of owning rose somewhat relative to the cost of renting, but not, in most cities, to levels that made houses look overvalued.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Staff Report ; No. 218

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Housing Supply and Markets
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Thema
housing prices, housing rents, user costs, fundamentals, bubbles
Immobilienpreis
Bubbles
Großstadt
Schätzung
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Himmelberg, Charles
Mayer, Christopher
Sinai, Todd
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2005

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Himmelberg, Charles
  • Mayer, Christopher
  • Sinai, Todd
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Entstanden

  • 2005

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