We use a GMM approach to estimate the impact of standard macroeconomic variables on house prices in Germany. In order to avoid interpolation of house price data we use annual data and look separately at the demand and supply side. Our findings suggest that nominal and real house prices in...

Der Preisindex für Wohnimmobilien (kurz: Häuserpreisindex) misst vierteljährlich die Preisentwicklung der in Deutschland von Privatpersonen erworbenen Ein- und Zweifamilienhäuser und Eigentumswohnungen. Als Teil eines Indikatorensets dient er unter anderem der Beurteilung der...

This paper analyses the behaviour of prices and supply on the German housing market taking into account the interaction between prices and quantities. A novel price index for residential property prices covering the whole country going back to 1993 is used in a macroeconomic model to estimate...