The research question of this paper is whether the Dutch housing market is overvalued or not. This is investigated by using different types of error correction models and by examining the impact of different variables that can explain house price changes in the Netherlands. The current financial...

Housing markets typically exhibit a strong positive correlation between the rate of price increase and the number of houses sold. We document this correlation on high-quality Dutch data for the period 1985-2007, and estimate a VEC-model that allows us to study the mechanism giving rise to the...

It is widely perceived that the supply of mortgages, especially since the extensive liberalization of the mortgage market of the 1980s, has had implications for the housing market in the Netherlands. In this paper we introduce a new method to estimate a credit condition index (CCI). The CCI...

This paper examines what determines the correlation between prices and turnover in European housing markets. Using a panel vector auto-regressive model, we find that there is a particularly strong feedback mechanism between prices and turnover. Momentum effects are another important reason why...

Price indices based on repeat sales are the most widely used type of real estate index based on asset transaction prices. But such indices are particularly prone to revision. When a new period of transaction data becomes available and is used to update the repeat sales model, all past index...

This paper deals with unobserved heterogeneity in hedonic price models, arising from missing property and locational characteristics. In specific, commercial real estate is very heterogeneous, and data on detailed property characteristics are often lacking. We show that adding mutually...

This paper examines what determines the correlation between prices and turnover in European housing markets. Using a panel vector autoregressive model, we find that there is a particularly strong feedback mechanism between prices and turnover. Momentum effects are another important reason why...

Several house price indices exist for the Netherlands. These different indices arise from different data sources and index construction methodologies. In this paper we analyze indices from the Dutch Association of Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Experts, the Statistics Netherlands, and two...

The repeat sales model is commonly used to construct reliable house price indices in absence of individual characteristics of the real estate. Several adaptations of the original model are proposed in literature. They all have in common using a dummy variable approach for measuring price...

The general purpose of a dynamic factor model (DFM) is to summarize a large number of time series into a few common factors. Here we explore a number of DFM specifications applied to 80 granular, non-overlapping indexes of commercial property prices in the US, quarterly from 2001 to 2017. We...