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Is the Recent Tax Reform Playing a Role in the Decline of Home Sales?

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  • Casey McQuillan
  • Richard Peach

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From the fourth quarter of 2017 through the third quarter of 2018, the average contract interest rate on new thirty-year fixed rate mortgages rose by roughly 70 basis points�from 3.9 percent to 4.6 percent. During this same period, there was a broad-based slowing in housing market activity with sales of new single-family homes declining by 7.6 percent while sales of existing single-family homes fell by 4.6 percent. Interestingly though, these declines in home sales were larger than in the two previous episodes when mortgage interest rates rose by a comparable amount. This post considers whether provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) might have also contributed to the recent decline in housing market activity.

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  • Casey McQuillan & Richard Peach, 2019. "Is the Recent Tax Reform Playing a Role in the Decline of Home Sales?," Liberty Street Economics 20190415, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fednls:87327
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    1. Wenli Li & Edison Yu, 2022. "Real Estate Taxes and Home Value: Evidence from TCJA," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 43, pages 125-151, January.
    2. Wenli Li & Edison Yu, 2020. "Real Estate Taxes and Home Value: Winners and Losers of TCJA," Working Papers 20-12, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

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    Housing; Tax Reform;

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    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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