...Filip von Wehrt; Heidi Falkenbach Purpose In this paper, we investigate whether news sentiment directly affects housing market liquidity using housing transactions data and newspaper articles on housing topics. Design/methodology/approach We develop a conceptual model for the relationship...

... analysis using OECD house price indices. A discussion of the contributing factors of synchronization, with a focus on the demand and supply dimensions is provided, and synchronization across both countries and cities is examined. Findings Housing markets globally have become more synchronized...

... in urban locales when deciding on a residential neighbourhood. Unlike the market for most tangible goods, the market for environmental quality does not yield an observable per unit price effect. As no explicit price exists for a unit of environmental quality, this paper aims to use the housing market...

...Stanimira Milcheva; Steffen Sebastian Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the housing market in the monetary policy transmission to consumption among euro area member states. It has been argued that the housing market in one country is then important when its mortgage...

... framework has become the benchmark theoretical model of the housing market. Starting from the large related literature, this paper develops a simplified approach to modelling the frictions that focuses on the direct relationship between house price and market tightness (a common feature only for the labour...