Arbeitspapier

House Price Expectations

This study examines short-, medium-, and long-run price expectations in housing markets. We derive and test six hypothesis about the incidence, formation, and relevance of price expectations. To do so, we use data from a tailored household survey, past sale and rental offerings, satellites, and from an information RCT. As novel findings, we show that price expectations exhibit mean reversion in the long-run. Moreover, we do not find evidence for biases related to individual housing tenure decisions or regret aversion. Confirming existing findings, we show that local market characteristics matter for expectations throughout, as well as aggregate price information. Lastly, we corroborate existing evidence that expectations are relevant for portfolio choice.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15040

Classification
Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Expectations; Speculations
Subject
housing markets
price expectations

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gohl, Niklas
Haan, Peter
Michelsen, Claus
Weinhardt, Felix
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2022

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Gohl, Niklas
  • Haan, Peter
  • Michelsen, Claus
  • Weinhardt, Felix
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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