Parental homeownership influences the younger generation's housing tenure through parental gifts and similarities in housing market circumstances (for example, urban-rural differences), among other mechanisms. This paper contributes to the distinguishing of these mechanisms and their relative importance, using the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study data and logistic regression analysis of housing tenure. Both gift-giving and continuities in housing market characteristics appear to be important mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of homeownership. After controlling for these mechanisms and other individual and parental characteristics, a strong effect of parents' housing tenure on children's housing tenure remains, which may be partly attributed to mechanisms such as socialisation.
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