Do consumers’ home buying attitudes explain the behaviour of US home sales?

Hamid Baghestani

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 11, 779-783

Abstract: This article asks whether consumers’ home buying attitudes explain the behaviour of home sales by focusing on two tranquil and two uncertain periods within 1978–2015. We utilize monthly data to formulate and estimate four augmented autoregressive models with the results indicating that improvements (deteriorations) in consumers’ home buying attitudes lead to higher (lower) home sales. This conclusion remains unchanged when controlling for economic and financial indicators often cited as determinants of home sales. Overall, our article has key implications for future studies aiming to forecast home sales using attitudinal measures.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1229401

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