UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO Hamilton New Zealand The Effects of Immigration on Local Housing Markets William Cochrane and Jacques Poot Working Paper in Economics 7/19 June 2019 Forthcoming as a chapter in K. Kourtit, B. Newbold, P. Nijkamp and M. Partridge (eds) The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2020. Corresponding Author Bill Cochrane School of Social Sciences Private Bag 3105 Hamilton New Zealand, 3240 Email: billc@waikato.ac.nz Jacques Poot Department of Spatial Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and National Institute of Demographic & Economic Analysis University of Waikato Hamilton New Zealand, 3240 Email: h.j.poot@vu.nl