Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/dohousingsalesdrOOwhea DEWEY il 08-oi Ao. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Departnnent of Econonnics Working Paper Series DO HOUSING SALES DRIVE PRICES OR THE CONVERSE? William C. Wlieaton Nai Jia Lee Working Paper 08-01 January 28, 2008 Room E52-251 50 Memorial Drive MA Cambridge, 02142 This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Paper Collection at http;//ssrn.com/abstract=1 07525 1 HB31 IM415 Draft: January 28, 2008. Do Housing Sales Drive Housing Prices or the Converse? By William C. Wheaton Department ofEconomics Center for Real Estate MIT Cambridge, Mass 02139 [email protected] and Nai Jia Lee Department ofUrban Studies and Planning Center for Real Estate MIT The authors are indebted to, the MIT Center for Real Estate, the National Association of Realtors and to Torto Wheaton Research. They remain responsible for all results and conclusions derivedthere from.