The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations

“The book is a valuable contribution to a range of significant ongoing debates about the role of homeownership and the extent to which this can form the basis of assets-based welfare regimes . . .The present work provides an important step towards the exploration of these wider dimensions.”  (Urban Studies, 1 May 2013)

"A valuable addition to the housing, economics, and public policy literature. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate students through professionals." (Choice, 1 March 2011)

"Smith and Searle's book can help students easily comprehend the importance of housing market performance in an economy. It should be very useful to urban and real estate students in every level as well as to a wider variety of readers."
—Yong Tu, National University of Singapore

"The Companion is a timely resource interlinking housing studies and economics, and arguing convincingly that they belong at the forefront of new thinking on public policy."
—Ian Skelton, University of Manitoba