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House Price and Repeat-Sales 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.

Use the table below to choose the narrower mortgage or real-estate finance branch before applying a term to a loan file, closing record, servicing review, investor report, appraisal, or valuation model. Move into the term page when the document, calculation, party role, lien position, or property cash flow matters.

What This Branch Covers

AreaUse it for
Case Shiller IndexCase Shiller Index is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.
FHFA House Price Index (HPI)FHFA House Price Index (HPI) is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.
House Price Index (HPI)House Price Index (HPI) is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.
Real Estate IndexReal Estate Index is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.
Repeat-Sales IndexAn index measuring price changes of the same property over multiple transactions, providing insights into real estate market trends.
Repeat-Sales MethodA methodology used in constructing the Case Shiller Index that focuses on tracking the price changes of the same properties over time.
Repeat-Sales MethodologyRepeat-Sales Methodology is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.

What to Check

  • Data source, release date, geography, property type, seasonality, and revision status.
  • Index method, repeat-sales method, sample coverage, weighting, and base period.
  • Sales, starts, applications, ownership, absorption, affordability, or sentiment measure.
  • Effect on collateral value, origination volume, prepayment risk, credit quality, or property-income assumptions.
  • Whether the data is national, regional, metro, property-level, or loan-level.

Common Mistakes

  • Using national data to price a local property without adjustment.
  • Comparing indexes with different samples, geography, and methods.
  • Treating asking prices, appraisals, transaction prices, and repeat-sales indexes as equivalent.
  • Ignoring revisions, seasonality, and lagged reporting.

Housing-market data content is educational and does not provide appraisal, lending, investment, legal, or tax advice.

In this section

Choose a subsection first. Deeper term pages live inside each subsection, which keeps large topic hubs readable.

Case Shiller Index

Case Shiller Index is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.

FHFA House Price Index (HPI)

FHFA House Price Index (HPI) is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.

House Price Index (HPI)

House Price Index (HPI) is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.

Real Estate Index

Real Estate Index is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.

Repeat-Sales Index

An index measuring price changes of the same property over multiple transactions, providing insights into real estate market trends.

Repeat-Sales Method

A methodology used in constructing the Case Shiller Index that focuses on tracking the price changes of the same properties over time.

Repeat-Sales Methodology

Repeat-Sales Methodology is a housing-market data concept used to track property prices, affordability, demand, or market cycles.

Revised on Sunday, June 21, 2026