NAHB produces in-depth economic analyses of the home building industry based on private and government data. Our Economics Group surveys builders, home buyers, and renters to gain insight into the issues and trends driving the industry. NAHB also hosts the Construction Forecast Conference held twice a year to help you keep on top of housing and the economy. Check our economic and housing data regularly for the latest updates and insights.
The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Existing-Home Sales Series is the premier measurement of the residential real estate market. On or about the 25th of each month, NAR releases statistics on sales and prices of existing single-family homes for the nation and the four regions. Beginning on February 25, 2005, these figures include condos and co-ops, in addition to single-family homes. The association also produces state-by-state existing-home sales and metro area home prices on a quarterly basis.
In March of 2005, NAR began producing the Pending Home Sales Index, a new leading indicator of housing activity. This is released in the first week of each month. The index is derived from pending sales of existing homes. A sale is listed as pending when the contract has been signed and the transaction has not closed. Pending sales typically are finalized within a month or two of signing. An index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, the first year to be examined, and was the first of five consecutive years for existing-home sales.
The HPI is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The HPI is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties. This information is obtained by reviewing repeat mortgage transactions on single-family properties whose mortgages have been purchased or securitized by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac since January 1975.
The HPI serves as a timely, accurate indicator of house price trends at various geographic levels. Because of the breadth of the sample, it provides more information than is available in other house price indexes. It also provides housing economists with an improved analytical tool that is useful for estimating changes in the rates of mortgage defaults, prepayments and housing affordability in specific geographic areas.
The HPI includes house price figures for the nine Census Bureau divisions, for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and for Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Divisions.
HousingTracker is an attempt to gain a more realtime understanding of the national housing market. HousingTracker data is compiled weekly from MLS listings which contain asking prices as opposed to the Realtor reported sale prices. HousingTracker gives you the 25th percentile, 50th percentile, and 75th percentile asking price for the metro areas covered. Additionally, the number of homes for sale (Inventory) for the metro area is reported.
Building Permits, Housing Starts, and Housing Completions
Historical data tables currently published in PDF and Excel format. See FRED for CSV and text versions of some of this data.
The S&P/Case-Shiller® Home Price Indices measures the residential housing market, tracking changes in the value of the residential real estate market in 20 metropolitan regions across the United States. These indices use the repeat sales pricing technique to measure housing markets. First developed by Karl Case and Robert Shiller, this methodology collects data on single-family home re-sales, capturing re-sold sale prices to form sale pairs. This index family consists of 20 regional indices and two composite indices as aggregates of the regions.
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are calculated monthly and published with a two month lag. New index levels are released at 9am Eastern Standard Time on the last Tuesday of every month.
In addition, the S&P/Case-Shiller® U.S. National Home Price Index is a broader composite of single-family home price indices for the nine U.S. Census divisions and is calculated quarterly.
Historical data on listings & sales of single-family homes, by US region and various other characteristics.
Data in PDF and XLS.
Commercial research service: provider of impartial commercial real estate performance information and analysis at the metro (city), submarket (neighborhood) and property level. Coverage of 80 U.S. metropolitan areas and more than 2,300 submarkets for the office, apartment, retail, and industrial sectors.
The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® strives to be the collective force influencing and shaping the real estate industry. It seeks to be the leading advocate of the right to own, use, and transfer real property; the acknowledged leader in developing standards for efficient, effective, and ethical real estate business practices; and valued by highly skilled real estate professionals and viewed by them as crucial to their success.
Working on behalf of America’s property owners, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® provides a facility for professional development, research and exchange of information among its members and to the public and government for the purpose of preserving the free enterprise system, and the right to own, use, and transfer real property.
Commercial data provider covering rental real estate market. Subscription pricing.
RealFacts is a research organization and database publisher specializing in the multifamily housing market.
Our research, data and analysis is widely used and respected by owners, developers, brokers, lenders and trade associations. It frequently forms the basis for articles run by the trade media and, amongst others, Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register and San Jose Mercury News.
Toronto real estate blog. No raw data, but extensive analysis with links to sources.
The IAS360™ House Price Index is the timeliest and most granular house price index in the industry, tracking median sales price trends of detached single-family residences. Based upon arms-length transactions, IAS360 tracks 15,000 “neighborhoods” nationwide that roll-up to report median price changes in 360 counties, nine census divisions, four regions, and the nation overall.