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The homeownership rate for young adults ages 25 to 34, which rose from 45 percent in the mid-1990s to a high of 50 percent in 2004, fell to 40 percent as of last year,…

W15-2: Changing socio-demographic characteristics of young adult households (those with householders ages 25 to 34) are having an impact on their propensities for…

The Census Bureau recently released its 2014 Q4 Housing Vacancy Survey(HVS) data, giving us a complete look at the boom and bust in homeownership rates over the last 20 years…

In conversations about the declining homeownership rate in the U.S., some commentators have pointed to declines in the share of married people as an important contributing…

In a previous post, I described recent research about drivers of decisions to own homes, with emphasis on the role of behavioral factors. That research confirmed that there…

What drives someone’s decision about whether to own or rent their home?  Economists tend to focus on financial factors such as user costs and return on investment.…

W14-3: While numerous studies have sought to identify determinants of individual decisions about owning and renting housing, very few have considered the role that…

W12-4: The analysis presented in this paper tests for associations between views on homeownership and experiences with recent housing market distress. Using data from…

For decades, real estate and housing professionals have thought of the typical home buyer as a married couple, with or without children, either purchasing their first home or…

In 2001, there were over 5.7 million foreign-born1 homeowners living in the United States, with $1.2 trillion in aggregate house value and $876 billion in home equity. More…