We document large long-run differences in average house price appreciation across metropolitan areas over the past 50 years, and show they can be explained by an inelastic supply of land in some unique locations combined with an increasing number of highincome households nationally. The resulting high house prices and price-to-rent ratios in those "superstar" areas crowd out lower income households. The same forces generate a similar pattern among municipalities within a metropolitan area. These facts suggest that disparate local house price and income trends can be driven by aggregate demand, not just changes in local factors such as productivity or amenities.
Property prices including house prices.
Awesome page is here: http://datahub.io/awesome#property-prices
Misc other stuff
Interesting paper with long run time series across the world: http://voxeu.org/article/home-prices-1870. Paper is 2014 in working paper and published in AER in 2017. Dataset is here https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20150501
Via references: superstar cities: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.5.4.167. This has data too.
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