Introduction; Urban housing models; Segmentation, adjustment and disequilibrium; Transactions costs and housing markets; Hedonic pricing models:a selective and applied review; Housing, random walks, complexity and the macroeconomy; Taxation, subsidies and housing markets; The economics of social housing; Neighbourhood dynamics and housing markets; Access to home ownership in the United States:the impact of changing perspectives on constraints to tenure choice; Planning regulation and housing supply in a market system; Economics and housing planning; The right to buy in Britain; The political economy of housing research; Policy and academia:an assessment