House price rises and borrowing to invest
Household borrowing and spending rise with house prices, particularly for leveraged households, but household spending is not consumption. We propose a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment: rational, leveraged households have an incen...
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| description | Household borrowing and spending rise with house prices, particularly for leveraged households, but household spending is not consumption. We propose a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment: rational, leveraged households have an incentive to make additional residential investments when house prices rise. Credit constraints then matter through reducing access to leveraged returns and so reducing lifetime resources, rather than through consumption smoothing. We test this motive by comparing responses in different categories of spending across more and less leveraged households. We find strong evidence of the borrow-to-invest motive in UK data. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4ed8210c-6d8e-406f-a63d-983fcb8f41e22024-08-05T13:34:15ZHouse price rises and borrowing to investJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4ed8210c-6d8e-406f-a63d-983fcb8f41e2EnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2024Crossley, TFLevell, PLow, HHousehold borrowing and spending rise with house prices, particularly for leveraged households, but household spending is not consumption. We propose a borrow-to-invest motive by which house price gains affect household spending on residential investment: rational, leveraged households have an incentive to make additional residential investments when house prices rise. Credit constraints then matter through reducing access to leveraged returns and so reducing lifetime resources, rather than through consumption smoothing. We test this motive by comparing responses in different categories of spending across more and less leveraged households. We find strong evidence of the borrow-to-invest motive in UK data. |
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