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Local House Price Growth Accelerations

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  • Alexander N. Bogin

    (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

  • William M. Doerner

    (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

  • William D. Larson

    (Federal Housing Finance Agency)

Abstract

We document real house price growth accelerations in U.S. ZIP codes between 1975 and 2015. Acceleration episodes, which are defined to include relatively extreme periods of price growth, tend to exhibit temporal clustering and occur with greater frequency in large versus small cities. We exploit within-city variation in price dynamics to provide evidence that growth accelerations initially overshoot sustainable price levels but, in some areas, may reflect positive underlying economic fundamentals. Price levels post-acceleration are most sustainable in large cities, especially near city centers. Dynamics are generally consistent with empirical mean-reversion models and theories regarding the effects of traffic congestion and the elasticity of housing supply on house price gradients within the city.

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  • Alexander N. Bogin & William M. Doerner & William D. Larson, 2016. "Local House Price Growth Accelerations," FHFA Staff Working Papers 16-02, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
    • Handle: RePEc:hfa:wpaper:16-02
    DOI: 10.1007/s11146-017-9643-y
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    Keywords

    house price cycles; Great Recession; real estate; boom; bust; house price index;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General

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