Arbeitspapier

Shrinking and growing metropolitan areas - asymmetric real estate price reactions? The Case of German single-family houses

The population of Germany will be one of the first in the western hemisphere to undergo considerable permanent shrinkage. In view of the relatively low elasticities of supply and demand significant negative price reactions might be expected. This work supplements existing studies by estimating real estate prices for single-family homes on the disaggregate level of Germany's metropolitan areas. It highlights asymmetric price reactions: growth in population numbers has no significant price effects, whereas declining population numbers lead to significant negative price effects.

ISBN
978-3-940369-27-7
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Hamburg Contemporary Economic Discussions ; No. 6

Classification
Wirtschaft
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Housing Supply and Markets
Subject
shrinking population
real estates
asymmetric price reactions
regional analysis

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dust, Lisa
Maennig, Wolfgang
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Chair for Economic Policy
(where)
Hamburg
(when)
2007

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Dust, Lisa
  • Maennig, Wolfgang
  • University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Chair for Economic Policy

Time of origin

  • 2007

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