Tony Cookson, The Pennsylvania State University

This special issue focuses on how household perspectives, choices, and behaviors interact with real estate markets. The collection seeks to understand how households perceive, price, and respond to various risks—including interest rate changes, climate hazards, and neighborhood dynamics—and how these responses ultimately shape market conditions and community outcomes.

The special issue welcomes submissions on all aspects of household real estate perspectives, with particular interest in household beliefs formation, insurance decisions, climate resilience, migration patterns in response to risk and affordability, and the spillover effects of household choices on communities. Papers may present empirical studies, methodological innovations, or literature reviews, all held to the journal's standard publication criteria.

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Potential topics

• Household beliefs and expectations: How households form and update beliefs about home prices, climate risk, and disaster exposure, and how those beliefs shape purchase, insurance, and mitigation decisions.
• Household decisions and insurance products: Both insurance choices as well as the impacts of insurance on real estate markets.
• Household resilience to climate shocks: Including investments in mitigation and resources for coping with total losses.
• Household migration and relocation: Mobility in response to shifting risk, affordability, and insurance availability, including managed retreat and out-migration from high-risk areas.
• Household decisions and community spillovers: How households' location, financing, insurance, and improvement choices create externalities for other community members, including social and demographic spillovers that reshape neighborhoods and local markets.

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: End date for submissions
• January 25, 2027: Aim to return first-round decisions
• February 1, 2027: National conference traditional deadline for independent submissions
• May 1, 2027: AREUEA special conference sessions at the National Meeting in Washington, D.C.