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A new working paper by E. Benassi and S. Bedük provides new evidence on young people’s homeownership in Europe. The authors find that homeownership at ages 25 to 35 has declined sharply across cohorts born in the 1970s to 1990s, with smaller but still notable declines at ages 40 to 50. Declines at earlier ages,…

A new working paper by S. Bedük, E. Benassi and P. Lersch shows that the relative chances of homeownership between those with and without homeowner parents have remained largely stable across Europeans born in the 1950s to the 1980s. In other words, the intergenerational persistence of homeownership has not changed across these cohorts, as homeownership…

A new open-access study by Sergi Vidal and co-authors in Population, Space and Place shows that separation sharply reduces the likelihood of owning a home—and that regaining ownership is mostly tied to repartnering. Using 1991–2019 panel data from England & Wales (BHPS/Understanding Society) and Germany (SOEP) and multilevel logistic models, the authors find that homeownership rates rise…