The Sources of our Property Data
We collect house price time-series for around 75 countries. For the rest of the world, historical data is just not available. Even in these countries, diversity rules - sometimes the data is for the leading cities, sometimes for the whole country, etc.
The types of house price data available in different countries is very varied, and those who expect the entire world to yield standardised statistics are often amazed at how limited the data is.
By preference we use central bank or national statistical institute data. But quite often, we are forced to use data generated by realtors (Colliers for the Philippines), consultants, chambers of construction, etc.
How many countries in Latin America (for instance) generate data? At time of writing, five - Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, and even then only in Peru and Colombia do the numbers get the stamp of approval from the Central Bank. How many in Africa? Egypt, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, and Tunisia.
The main areas where plentiful data good price time-series quality is available are Europe, South East Asia, and North America.
Global Property Guide yields data
The significant weaknesses in the available time-series data is the main reason that the Global Property Guide’s in-house research team generates house price and rentals data for around 100 countries. However that data is not a time series (sometimes we are asked for a yields time-series, but we do not have one). It is data which we generate in-house, on an irregular basis, often from a quite small data set (400 properties in high-end areas of a country's main city).
Increasingly we supplement such in-house data by data generated by web companies. As the technology spreads transactions and price data is increasingly easily harvested from the transactions on major national property web sites.
Sources of the house-price time-series
Here is a complete list of all the sources of our house price time-series, with live links to the sites that supply the data.
| COUNTRY | DEFINITION | FROM | SOURCE |
| Argentina | Average value of old apartments, Buenos Aires | Jun 1905 | Reporte Inmobiliario |
| Australia | HPI average of 8 capital cities | Q1-2002 | AusStats |
| Austria | Residential property price index, Vienna | Q3-1986 | Oesterreichische Nationalbank - Residential Property Price Index |
| Belgium | Residential Property Price Index, Existing Dwellings | Q1-1990 | European Central Bank: Belgium - Residential Property Prices |
| Brazil | FipeZap Price Index of Real Estate, Sao Paulo | Jan 2008 | Fundacao Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas (FIPE), Brazil |
| Bulgaria | House price index, all dwellings | Q1-2005 | Rep of Bulgaria National Statistical Institute - House Price Index |
| Canada | Teranet - National Bank House Price Index, Composite 11 cities | Mar 1999 | Statistics Canada |
| Chile | House Price Index for new homes | Jan 2004 | Chilean Chamber of Construction |
| China | Price Indices of Second-Hand Residential Buildings, Beijing | Jan 2011 | National Bureau of Statistics of China |
| Colombia | Used house price index, Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Soacha, Bello and Envigado e Itaguí | Q1-1988 | Banco de la Republica - Colombia |
| Croatia | Property price index, existing dwellings | Q1-2008 | Croatian Bureau of Statistics |
| Cyprus | Residential Property Price Index | Q1-2006 | Central Bank of Cyprus |
| Czech Republic | Residential Property Index, secondhand flats, Prague | Q1-2008 | Czech Statistical Office - Real Estate Prices |
| Denmark | Price index for sales of property, one-family houses, Denmark | Q1-1992 | StatBank Denmark |
| Egypt | Mean price of housing units, from 100,000 properties in Aqarmat database | Aug 2013 | Aqarmap Egyptian Real Estate Demand Index |
| Estonia | Residential property prices, New and existing flats | Q3-2003 | European Central Bank: Estonia - Residential Property Prices |
| Finland | Price Index of Old Dwellings, Terraced Houses & Blocks of Flats | Q1-2015 | Statistics Finland |
| France | Price index of second-hand dwellings - Metropolitan France (seasonally-adjusted) | Q1-1996 | INSEE |
| Germany | Residential property prices, new and existing dwellings | Q1-2003 | European Central Bank: Germany - Residential Property Prices |
| Greece | Index of prices of dwellings, urban areas | Q1-1997 | Bank of Greece |
| Hong Kong | HK private domestic, price indices by class (territory wide) | Q1-1997 | Hong Kong Rating and Valuation Department |
| Hungary | Residential Property Price, existing dwellings | Q1-2013 | Hungarian Central Statistical Office - Housing Price Indices |
| Iceland | House price index, Iceland | Mar 2000 | Statistics Iceland |
| India | RBI House Price Index | Q2-2010 | Reserve Bank of India - House Price Index |
| Indonesia | Residential Property Price Index, Composite 16 Cities (Included Jabodebek- Banten) | Q1-2007 | Bank Indonesia |
| Ireland | Residential Property Price Index | Jan 2005 | Central Statistics Office Ireland |
| Israel | Average prices of owner occupied dwellings, Israel | Q1-1990 | Israel Central Bureau of Statistics - Housing Indices and Prices |
| Italy | House price index | Q1-1990 | European Central Bank: Italy - Residential Property Prices |
| Jersey | Average price of dwellings, Jersey | 1Q 2002 | Government of Jersey - House Price Statistics |
| Japan | Average price of existing condominuim sales in Tokyo Metropolitan Area | Sep 2004 | The Land Institute of Japan |
| Latvia | Average price of a standard-type apartment, Riga | Sep 2007 | Arco Real Estate |
| Lithuania | Ober Haus apartment price index, 5 largest cities | Jan 1994 | Ober-haus - Lithuanian Price Index Archives |
| Luxembourg | Average Selling Price of Apartments | Q1-2007 | STATEC Luxembourg |
| Macau | Residential property price index | Q1-2003 | Macau Statistics and Census Service - Residential Property Price Index |
| Macedonia | Residential Property Price Index (Skopje), all flats | Q1-2005 | National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia |
| Malaysia | House price index, Malaysia | Q1-2009 | Malaysian Valuation and Property Services Department - Property Information Centre |
| Malta | Property prices index, based on advertised prices, Malta | Q1-2000 | Central Bank of Malta |
| Mexico | SHF House Price Index | Q1-2015 | Gobierno de Mexico - Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal |
| Mongolia | House Price Index | Aug 2013 | Mongolian Central Bank - Housing Price Index |
| Montenegro | Prices of dwellings in new residential buildings | Q1-2011 | Statistical Office of Montenegro - Dwellings Statistics |
| Morocco | Residential Property Price Index , existing dwellings | Q1-2006 | Banque Centrale du Maroc - Indices des Prix des Actifs Immobiliers |
| Namibia | FNB Namibia House Price Index | Jul 2005 | FNB Housing Price Index |
| Netherlands | Price index of existing owner-occupied homes, Netherlands | Jan 1995 | Statistics Netherlands |
| New Zealand | House Price Index (all dwellings) | Q1-1990 | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
| Norway | House price index, all dwellings, Norway | Q1-1992 | Statistics Norway - Price Index for Existing Dwellings |
| Pakistan | Residential Property Price Index, Pakistan | Jan 2004 | Zameen - Pakistan Residential Property Price Index |
| Peru | Residential property price index, flats (Lima) | Q4-2007 | Banco Central de Reserva del Peru - Indices de Precios Hedonicos de Inmuebles |
| Philippines | Prime 3BR condominium price, Makati Central Business District | Q4-1994 | Colliers Philippines |
| Poland | Residential Property Price Index, existing flats in 7 cities | Q3-2006 | Central Bank of Poland |
| Portugal | Average value of bank evaluation of living quarters | Jan 2011 | Statistics Portugal - Median value of bank evaluation by Geographic localization (Nuts 11 2013) |
| Puerto Rico | Purchase-only House Price Index, Seasonally Adjusted | Q1-1995 | FHFA |
| Qatar | Real Estate Index | Mar 2013 | Qatar Central Bank - Real Estate Price Index |
| Romania | Average Selling Price of Apartments | Mar 2008 | imobiliare.ro - Romanian Real Estate Indices |
| Russia | Average price per Sq. m., Russia | Q1-2000 | Federal State Statistics Service |
| Serbia | Price of Dwellings of New Construction, Serbia | 1H 1999 | Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia |
| Singapore | Property price index, private residential, Singapore | Q1-1998 | Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore |
| Slovak Republic | Residential Property Prices, Slovakia | Q1-2005 | National Bank of Slovakia |
| Slovenia | House Price Index, Existing flats, Ljubljana | Q1-2007 | Statistical Office of Slovenia |
| Sri Lanka | Average overall house sale price, Sri Lanka | Q1-2007 | Lanka Property - Average Property Prices, Sri Lanka |
| South Africa | FNB House price index, medium value residential properties, South Africa | Jan 2006 | FNB House Price Index |
| South Korea | Housing price index, South Korea | Jan 1990 | Kookmin Bank in Korea |
| Spain | Average price per m2 for open-market appraised housing | Q1-1990 | Banco de España |
| Sweden | Real estate price index for 1&2 dwelling buildings, Sweden | Q1-1990 | Statistics Sweden |
| Switzerland | House price index of rental apartments, Switzerland | Q1-2000 | Swiss National Bank |
| Taiwan | Sinyi house price index, Taiwan | Q1-2001 | Sinyi Real Estate Index |
| Thailand | House price index, single detached house, Thailand | Q1-2008 | Bank of Thailand |
| Tunisia | Property price index | Q1-2000 | Statistiques Tunisies - Index Price of Immovables |
| Turkey | House Price Index For Turkey | Jan 2010 | Turkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankasi |
| Ukraine | Average price of apartments in the secondary market, Kiev | Q1-2003 | S&V Development - Real Estate Results |
| UAE | House price index, foreign ownership areas, Dubai | Jan 2010 | REIDIN - UAR Residential Property Price Report |
| UK | Average house price, UK | Q1-1952 | Nationwide - House Price Index |
| US | All Transactions House Price Index, Not Seasonally Adjusted | Q1-1990 | Federal Housing Finance Agency - House Price Index |
| Vietnam | House prices in HCMC - Savills property price index | Q2-2009 | Savills - Vietnam Insight and Opinion |