Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107414 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2015-13
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
In this paper, the authors construct a unique data set of Internet offer prices for flats in 48 large European cities from 24 countries. The data are collected between January and May 2012 from 33 websites, where the advertisements of flats for sale are placed. Using the resulting sample of 750,000 announcements the authors compute the average city-specific house prices. Based on this information they investigate the determinants of the apartment prices. Four factors are found to be relevant for the flats' price level: income per capita, population density, unemployment rate, and income inequality. The results are robust both to excluding variables and to applying two alternative estimation techniques: OLS and quantile regression. Based on their estimation results the authors are able to identify the cities, where the prices are overvalued. This is a useful indication of a build-up of house price bubbles.
Subjects: 
internet ads
flats' prices
large European cities
fundamental prices
JEL: 
C21
R31
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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