War, housing rents, and free market: Berlin's rental housing during World War I

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Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880-1917)

“…The vacancy rate, computed as the share of empty dwellings in the total number of dwellings, equals 5.5% in 1869, 6.2% in 1890, and 3.9% in 1900. These rates are comparable to, for example, Berlin (1890Berlin ( -1900, where vacancy rates were on average 3.6%, and fluctuated between 1.0% and 6.2% (see Kholodilin, 2016).…”

“…For the rental market, there are mainly time series focusing on (shorter or longer) periods in history: Margo (1996), New York 1830-1860Clark (2002), England and Wales 1550-1909Eichholtz et al (2012), Amsterdam 1550-1850; Gray (2015), New York, 1880-1910Samy (2015), London 1895-1939and Kholodilin (2016), Berlin 1909-1917. Eichholtz et al (2018 are, to our knowledge, the only ones constructing long-term series up until today.…”