Repeat Sales House Price Index Methodology

36 Pages Posted: 9 Dec 2012 Last revised: 19 May 2018

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Chaitra Nagaraja

Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business

Lawrence D. Brown

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Susan M. Wachter

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate ; University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

Date Written: December 7, 2012

Abstract

We compare four traditional repeat sales indices to a recently developed autoregressive index that makes use of the repeat sales methodology but includes single sales and a location effect. Qualitative comparisons on statistical issues including the effect of gap time on sales, use of hedonic information, and treatment of single and repeat sales are addressed. Furthermore, predictive ability is incorporated as a quantitative metric into the analysis using data from US home sales in twenty metropolitan areas. The indices tend to track each other over time; however, the differences are substantial enough to be of interest, and we find that the autoregressive index performs best overall.

Keywords: repeat sales, time series, housing, index evaluation

Suggested Citation

Nagaraja, Chaitra and Brown, Lawrence D. and Wachter, Susan M., Repeat Sales House Price Index Methodology (December 7, 2012). Journal of Real Estate Literature, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2186661

Chaitra Nagaraja

Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business ( email )

113 West 60th Street
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United States

Lawrence D. Brown

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School ( email )

3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365
United States

Susan M. Wachter (Contact Author)

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate ( email )

The Wharton School
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
United States
215-898-6355 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://real.wharton.upenn.edu/~wachter/index.html

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department ( email )

The Wharton School
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

HOME PAGE: http://real.wharton.upenn.edu/~wachter/index.html

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