Bargaining Over Residential Real Estate: Evidence from England, Second Version

41 Pages Posted: 17 Aug 2002

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Antonio Merlo

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics; Rice University

François Ortalo-Magné

Wisconsin School of Business; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)

Date Written: September 2002

Abstract

This paper presents and investigates a new data set of individual residential property transactions in England. The main novelty of the data is the record of all listing price changes and all offers made on a property, as well as all the visits by potential buyers for a subset of the properties. We analyze individual seller and potential buyers behavior within property transaction histories. This leads us to establish a number of stylized facts pertaining specifically to the timing and terms of agreement in housing transactions, and more generally, to the sequence of events that occur from initial listing to sale agreement. We assess the limitations of existing theories in explaining the data and propose an alternative theoretical framework for the study of the strategic interactions between buyers and sellers that is consistent with the empirical evidence.

Note: Please note that this paper is the updated version of PIER 02-005.

JEL Classification: D4, R0, L0

Suggested Citation

Merlo, Antonio M. and Ortalo-Magne, Francois, Bargaining Over Residential Real Estate: Evidence from England, Second Version (September 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=322220 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.322220

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