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Motivation
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Literature on Pandemics and Real Estate Markets
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Empirical Analysis and Results
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Literature on Pandemics and Real Estate Markets

Empirical evidence from an economic history angle is provided by Francke and Korevaar (2021), who analyze the plague in 17th-century Amsterdam and cholera in 19th-century Paris. They find a substantial shortrun effect on house prices in affected areas, whereas effects on rents were lower. The authors further document that the effects were short-lived and that prices in both cities quickly recovered. On the contrary, Ambrus et al. (2020) show that a decline in house price resulting from the cholera epidemic in 19th-century London persisted over longer terms for the directly affected neighborhood. For the 2003 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong, Wong (2008) found limited effects on house prices. In the particular case of Hong Kong, high transaction costs, liquidity constraints, and loss aversion might explain this finding.

Most recently, D’Lima et al. (2022) investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on house prices in the United States. They find that house prices fell in densely populated areas in times of shutdowns. In contrast, prices rose in areas with fewer populations. On top, both effects become more pronounced for houses with fewer bedrooms. These findings are backed-up by Liu and Su (2021) who show a decline in housing demand in the United States in densely populated areas triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Gupta et al. (2021) corroborate these findings by showing that sale and rent prices dropped in city centers and increased in suburban areas in US metropolitan areas due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting home office rules. In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic and the contagion measures by the government seemed to drive housing demand out of expensive areas, for which the value of amenities declined as well. On top, home office rules weaken incentives to live close to the job. However, Gupta et al. (2021) predict that regional price dynamics might reverse when working from home will flatten again.

Importantly, almost all evidence how the recent pandemic hit real estate markets come from the United States (with the exception of Allen-Coghlan, McQuinn, 2020b, a; Del Giudice et al., 2020). The IWH European Real Estate Index permits more research on the effects and the effectiveness of EU policies.

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European Real Estate Prices

Michael Koetter Felix Noth

in: IWH Technical Reports, Nr. 3, 2022

Abstract

Real estate markets are pivotal to financial stability given their dual role as the underlying asset of crucial financial products in financial systems, such as mortgage loans and asset-backed securities, and the primary source of household wealth alike. As such, they also play traditionally a crucial role for the transmission of monetary policy. Imbalances and sudden corrections in real estate markets have been the root cause of many financial crises over the last decades. But whereas some national, often survey-based indicators of real estate prices are provided by central banks and statistical offices, a comprehensive collection of purchase prices, rents, and proxies for the liquidity of European real estate markets is lacking. The IWH European Real Estate Index (EREI) seeks to fill this void for residential property. This technical report describes the gathering and processing of sale and rental prices for properties in 18 European countries. We provide the general scrapeing step in the section before describing country-specific details for each country in separated sub-sections.

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