Housing Supply and Liquidity in the COVID-19 Era

Justin Contat and Malcolm Rogers

No 22-02, FHFA Staff Working Papers from Federal Housing Finance Agency

Abstract: We document changes in national housing supply and liquidity during the COVID-19 era using a suite of monthly indices, ranging from summary statistics (mean and median time on the market, proportion of homes sold, etc.) to more advanced econometric indices that can address censoring and unobserved heterogeneity. Our results indicate a sharp structural break in most of the indices near the start of COVID-19 in March 2020, though each index’s most likely break date varies by a few months. Our findings suggest that the start of the pandemic saw a supply decrease, followed by an immediate and sustained price increase. Listings became more likely to be withdrawn, but those that sold did so faster relative to pre-COVID levels, indicating a change in the distribution of housing market liquidity. Finally, our results suggest that there were different types of structural breaks, specifically changes in the level, slope, and seasonality of the indices.

Keywords: housing supply; housing liquidity; COVID-19; structural breaks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 R30 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2022-11
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Published in Cityscape, 2022, volume 24, number 3, pages 123-152

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