The effect of COVID-19 on the US housing market

The COVID-19 pandemic gives buyers a leg up over sellers in the US housing market.

Note: The BUSE index is the ration of “buy” to “sell” Google searches in the category “Real Estate”. It was inteoduced in:

N. Askitas, Trend-spotting in the housing market, Cityscape – A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198