We find that blockbusting caused substantially lower house values in 1980 and 1990. To understand the mechanisms, we analyze property-level data in one neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.

Indeed, blockbusting initially involves lower commission fees. In equilibrium, one broker matches sellers to minority buyers all along while the other broker free-rides on the first broker’s groundbreaking …

Real estate agents, who have asymmetric information on potential buyers, have an incentive to strategically disclose information on potential minority buyers, to trigger white flight and increase profits.

Housing is the most important asset for the vast majority of American households and a key driver of racial disparities in wealth. This paper studies how residential segregation by race eroded black …

ndson Village in Baltimore was one such neighborhood. As a result of blockbusting and other questionable real estate practices, the neighborhood changed .

We study the impacts of blockbusting, i.e. large-scale racial turnover of urban neighborhoods orchestrated by real estate professionals using aggressive and discriminatory practices.

We expand upon this conceptu-alization of historical structural racism by examining the potential associations of probable blockbusting, urban renewal, and proximity to displacement from freeway …