TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gorea, Denis
AU  - Kryvtsov, Oleksiy
AU  - Kudlyak, Marianna
        TI  - House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data
        PY  - 2022/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15481
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15481
        AB  - Existing literature documents that house prices respond to monetary policy surprises with a significant delay, taking years to reach their peak response. We present new evidence of a much faster response. We exploit information contained in listings for the residential properties for sale in the United States between 2001 and 2019 from the CoreLogic Multiple Listing Service Dataset. Using high-frequency measures of monetary policy shocks, we document that a one-standard-deviation contractionary monetary policy surprise lowers housing list prices by 0.2–0.3 percent within two weeks—a magnitude on par with the effect on stock prices. House prices respond stronger to the surprises to future rates as compared to the surprise changes in the federal funds rate. Sale prices are mostly pre-determined by list prices and do not independently respond to monetary policy surprises.
        KW  - transmission of monetary policy
KW  - monetary policy
KW  - house prices
KW  - list and sales prices
        ER  -