School quality as a catalyst for bidding wars and new housing development

Crocker H. Liu and Patrick S. Smith

Real Estate Economics, 2023, vol. 51, issue 4, 785-818

Abstract: We provide new evidence of the demand for better schools as manifested in bidding wars and changes to the built environment. Using repeat sales before and after a redistricting, we exploit shocks to school quality arising from the continuous, unexpected redistricting of school attendance boundaries in Atlanta. We find that houses redistricted to higher (lower) quality schools are more (less) likely to be involved in a market‐driven bidding war. Similarly, undeveloped, redistricted parcels that receive a positive (negative) school quality shock are more (less) likely to be developed. School quality shocks also have a causal effect on house prices and time‐on‐market.

Date: 2023
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