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Yet Another View on Why a Home Is One's Castle

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  • Fuad Hasanov
  • Douglas C. Dacy

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We compute equity‐based real after‐tax rates of return for homeowners and landlords in the United States for 1952–2005. The study confirms that a combined aggregate for residential housing provides a high average net return and low volatility, has low correlation with financial assets and can provide hedge against inflation. The efficient frontier analysis shows that the optimal portfolio for a household with a coefficient of relative risk aversion of four to five is one which contains a bit larger amount of housing than stocks, close to what one observes in the real world.

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  • Fuad Hasanov & Douglas C. Dacy, 2009. "Yet Another View on Why a Home Is One's Castle," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 37(1), pages 23-41, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:37:y:2009:i:1:p:23-41
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6229.2009.00233.x
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