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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by tfehring on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:22PM (#28579427)
The research I've seen (e.g. [0] [1]) consistently shows a modest decrease in rent prices for existing renters when new housing is built. Are there studies showing the opposite that I'm not aware of? I understand that there are two competing effects at play (which [0] calls an amenity effect vs. a supply effect) but my impression is that empirically the latter seems to reliably outweigh the former.

[0] https://blocksandlots.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Do-New-...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01055

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Re:Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords by the_gipsy on Sunday September 19, 2021 @06:04AM (#28583078)
I can’t recall the article I read about it - sorry. It probably didn’t cite thorough studies though. It took into account the fact that higher population increases wages (opportunity), which would rise rents. Similar to amenity effect, but iirc it applies to the city as a whole, not just the neighbourhood.
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