Case-Shiller Index
The Case-Shiller Index measures changes in U.S. existing single-family home prices using matched repeat sales and value-weighted market indexes.
House-price indexes, repeat-sales methods, and index concepts used in housing valuation analysis.
House Price and Repeat-Sales Indexes covers home sales, housing starts, ownership data, house-price indexes, repeat-sales methods, housing cycles, and property-market indicators.
Use these pages when housing data affects collateral assumptions, mortgage demand, borrower behavior, real-estate valuation, or market-cycle analysis. It sits inside Housing Market Data and Indexes, so readers can move up when the broader property-finance context matters.
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| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Case-Shiller Home Price Index | A family of repeat-sales indexes tracking existing U.S. single-family home prices nationally and across major metropolitan areas. |
| FHFA House Price Index (HPI) | A family of repeat-sales indexes built primarily from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage data, with purchase-only and broader variants for different analytical uses. |
| House Price Index (HPI) | A measure of residential property-price change whose meaning depends on its sample, geography, source data, quality-adjustment method, and reporting basis. |
| Real Estate Index | An umbrella term for residential-price, direct-property return, listed REIT, rent, activity, and sentiment measures that require different interpretations. |
| Repeat-Sales Index | A market-level price series estimated from repeated observations on the same properties, subject to sample, weighting, geography, and revision choices. |
| Repeat-Sales Methodology | A statistical method that estimates property-price movement from repeat transactions on the same assets, with explicit matching, filtering, weighting, and revision rules. |
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The Case-Shiller Index measures changes in U.S. existing single-family home prices using matched repeat sales and value-weighted market indexes.
The FHFA House Price Index tracks changes in U.S. single-family home values using repeat transactions, with several datasets for different analytical needs.
A house price index measures residential property-price change over time; its meaning depends on the sample, method, geography, and adjustment basis.
A real estate index tracks a defined property market, but price, rent, direct-property, REIT, and activity indexes measure fundamentally different outcomes.
A repeat-sales index measures property-price change from repeated observations on the same assets; interpretation depends on its sample, weights, geography, and revisions.
Repeat-sales methodology estimates property-price change from multiple transactions on the same assets, reducing sales-mix bias while introducing distinct sample risks.