Journal Article
Taxes, income distribution, and the real estate cycle: why all houses do not appreciate at the same rate
Abstract: Changes in house prices are generally reported on an aggregate basis. This article suggests that within a metropolitan area, high-value and low-value homes appreciate at different rates. Overall, the authors results indicate that appreciation rates are more volatile for high-priced homes than for less expensive homes around the real estate cycle. ; The different rates of price appreciation are partly explained by changes in the user cost of owning a home. Cyclical factors also play a part. Furthermore, the author found that changes in the prices of lowervalue homes have a contemporaneous effect on high-end home prices, while the opposite is not true. His results suggest that in a house-price boom, first-time homebuyers may be in a better position to buy a lowpriced home than the reported, aggregate price index suggests.
Keywords: Housing; Real property;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Part of Series: New England Economic Review
Publication Date: 1993
Issue: May
Pages: 39-50