Inside a bubble and crash: Evidence from the valuation of amenities
Ronan Lyons (ronan.lyons@tcd.ie)
Economic Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department
Abstract:
Housing markets and their cycles are central to understanding macroeconomic fl uctuations. As housing is an inherently spatial market, an understanding of the economics of location-specific amenities is needed. This paper examines this topic, using a rich dataset of 25 primary location-specific characteristics and over 1.2 million sales and rental listings in Ireland, from the peak of a real estate bubble in 2006 to 2012 when prices had fallen by more than half. It finds clear evidence that the price effects of amenities are greater than rent effects, something that may be explained by either tenant search thresholds or buyers' desire to "lock in" access to fixed-supply amenities. Buyer lock-in concerns would be most prevalent at the height of a bubble and thus would be associated with pro-cyclical amenity pricing. Instead there is signi cant evidence that the relative price of amenities is counter-cyclical. This suggests the Irish housing market bubble was characterized by "property ladder" effects, rather than "lock-in" concerns.
Keywords: Housing markets; amenity valuation; search costs; market cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 E32 H23 H4 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2013-12
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Working Paper: Inside a bubble and crash: Evidence from the valuation of amenities (2012)
Working Paper: Search costs, sorting and “property ladder†effects: Evidence from the valuation of amenities (2012)
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