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Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It aims to describe and predict economic patterns of supply and demand . The closely related field of housing economics is narrower in scope, concentrating on residential real estate markets, while the research on real estate trends focuses on the business ...
"The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet" (PDF). Center for Economic and Policy Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2007. Fred E. Foldvary (1997), "The Business Cycle: A Georgist-Austrian Synthesis Archived August 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 56(4):521–41, October.
A real-estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets, and it typically follows a land boom or reduced interest rates. [1]
Capitalization rate (or "cap rate") is a real estate valuation measure used to compare different real estate investments. Although there are many variations, the cap rate is generally calculated as the ratio between the annual rental income produced by a real estate asset to its current market value. Most variations depend on the definition of ...
The longer housing prices remain stagnant or fall, the greater the penalty to our future economic growth." [54] October 31: Federal Reserve lowers the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4.5 percent and the discount window rate by 25 basis points to 5 percent.
What is a net sheet in real estate? A net sheet is an itemized tally of all the associated costs and expenses a home seller will incur as a result of the transaction, set against the sum the buyer ...
The rental vacancy rate is an economic indicator which measures the percentage of rental homes or commercial spaces that are vacant. Residential vacancies [ edit ]
One 2017 NBER study argued that real estate investors (i.e., those owning 2+ homes) were more to blame for the crisis than subprime borrowers: "The rise in mortgage defaults during the crisis was concentrated in the middle of the credit score distribution, and mostly attributable to real estate investors" and that "credit growth between 2001 ...