Journal Article
To buy or not to buy? The changing relationship between Manhattan rents and home prices
Abstract: Much of the nation has experienced steep declines in housing prices in recent years. In Manhattan, however, apartment sales prices did not fall as sharply. A study of price-rent ratios in the New York City borough concludes that, while apartment rents are driven by supply and demand forces, apartment sales prices are driven in part by speculative factors, and they sometimes rise or fall to levels incommensurate with prevailing rents. Manhattan price-rent ratios, although off their 2008 highs, are still up dramatically over the past two decades, suggesting less financial ?value? today in an apartment purchase there.
Keywords: Housing - Prices; Housing - New York (N.Y.); Apartment houses; Rental housing;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Part of Series: Current Issues in Economics and Finance
Publication Date: 2012
Volume: 18
Issue: Dec
Order Number: 9