Housing Market Expectations

Theresa Kuchler, Monika Piazzesi and Johannes Stroebel

No 9665, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We review the recent literature on the determinants and effects of housing market expectations. We begin by providing an overview of existing surveys that elicit housing market expectations, and discuss how those surveys may be expanded in the future. We then document a number of facts about time-series and cross-sectional patterns of housing market expectations in these survey data, before summarizing research that has studied how individuals form these expectations. Housing market expectations are strongly influenced by recently observed house price changes, by personally or locally observed house price changes, by house price changes observed in a person’s social network, and by current home ownership status. Similarly, experienced house price volatility affects expectations uncertainty. We also summarize recent work that documents how differences in housing market expectations translate into differences in individuals’ housing market behaviors, including their home purchasing and mortgage financing decisions. Finally, we highlight research on how expectations affect aggregate outcomes in the housing market.

Keywords: expectation formation; housing markets; mortgage choice; extrapolative expectations; peer effects; social learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 G50 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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