Houses are assets not goods: taking the theory to the UK data

John Lewis and Fergus Cumming In yesterday’s post we argued that housing is an asset, whose value should be determined by the expected future value of rents, rather than a textbook demand and supply for physical dwellings. In this post we develop a simple asset-pricing model, and combine it with data for England and Wales. … Continue reading Houses are assets not goods: taking the theory to the UK data