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Forecasting Prices and Excess Returns in the Housing Market

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  • Karl E. Case
  • Robert J. Shiller

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The paper uses quarterly indexes of existing single‐family home prices estimated with microdata on properties that sold more than once to estimate excess returns to investment in owner‐occupied housing. Housing prices and excess returns are estimated over the period 1970:1 to 1986:3 for Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco. Using time‐series cross‐section regressions we test for the forecastability of prices and excess returns using a number of independent variables. Price changes in one year tend to continue for more than one year in the same direction. The ratio of construction costs to price, changes in adult population and increases in real per capita income all are positively related to excess returns or price changes over the subsequent year. The results add weight to the argument that the market for single‐family homes is inefficient.

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  • Karl E. Case & Robert J. Shiller, 1990. "Forecasting Prices and Excess Returns in the Housing Market," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 18(3), pages 253-273, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:18:y:1990:i:3:p:253-273
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.00521
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