) Title Slide (5 points) Country name and picture(s); your name; group name
2. House Prices (Slides 2-4; 15 points) Plot the data on house prices over a time period that you select (the longer the better). Describe the trends and cycles in the house price data over the selected period.
2) Housing ‘Quantities’ (Slides 5-7; 15 points) Plot the data on housing quantities over a time period that you select (the longer the better). Describe the trends and cycles in housing quantities over the selected period. Describe if there is a relationship between housing prices and housing quantities.
3) Drivers of Housing Markets (Slides 8-13; 30 points). What factors can explain the trends and cycles in housing markets in your country?
4) Housing ‘Bubbles’ (Slides 14-16; 15 points). Discuss the evidence on housing ‘bubbles’ in your country. Describe the steps that policymakers in the country took to tame such bubbles.
5) Housing Affordability (Slides 17-19; 15 points). Summarize developments in housing affordability in your country.
6) ‘Open discussion’ (Slides 20-24; 10 points). You are free to innovate and add material of interest for your chosen country based on topics discussed in class or other aspects of real estate markets that are of interest to you.
7) Concluding slide: (Slide 25; 5 points). Takeaways.
You are free to discuss your individual project with your group and exchange drafts of your presentation.