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 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: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 1162

Classification
Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Housing Supply and Markets
Subject
housing
house price expectations

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gohl, Niklas
Haan, Peter
Michelsen, Claus
Weinhardt, Felix
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2022

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Gohl, Niklas
  • Haan, Peter
  • Michelsen, Claus
  • Weinhardt, Felix
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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