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Last updated: Sep 06, 2015

Canada.

The Teranet National Bank House Price Index is an independently developed representation of average home price changes in 11 metropolitan areas: victoria,Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal, Quebec, and Halifax. The national composite index is the weighted average of the 11 metropolitan areas. The indices are based on the repeat sales methodology and began in February 1999.

Statistics Canada publishes a monthly time-series of a new house price index, based on contractors' selling prices of new residential houses in 21 metropolitan areas. This time-series is available from 1981 but is not free.

China.

Ehomeday, a major real estate portal based in Shanghai, produces monthly house price index of second-hand houses in Shanghai, as well as several other cities.

The National Bureau of Statistics China (NBSC) has recently made several adjustments in the calculation of their price index of newly constructed residential building. It is based on the transaction records from city-level housing departments. The available data began in January 2011.

Colombia.

The Banco de la Republica Colombia publishes both quarterly and annual used housing price index, using loan appraisals reported by Davivienda, BBVA, Av. Villas, Bancolombia, Colmena BCSC and Colpatria. The index is calculated using the repeat-sales methodology and covers 6 cities - Bogot , Medell n, Cali, Soacha, Bello, and Envigado e Itagu . It started in 1988.

The Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) releases quarterly house price index for new housing. DANE temporarily ceased publication of the New Housing Price Index in 2009 to revise and improve the methodology. They have released it again recently, now using a new methodology as well as the old methodology. It is based on selling price per square metre and stretches back to 1997.

Croatia.

Centar Nekretnina, Croatia s leading real estate portal, has published a property price index every month since May 2006, based on real estate asking prices, derived from ads published on their website in the current month.

The Croatian Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Croatia also releases a semi-annual price index of new dwellings sold, as well as corresponding average prices. There are data for the whole country and for the capital, Zagreb.

Cyprus.

The Central Bank of Cyprus began publishing a residential property price index in December 2010 through their bi-annual economic bulletin. This index is preliminary and is still under revision. The time-series starts in 2006.

Several quarters of house price data are also available on a new property time series developed by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Czech Republic.

The Czech National Bank (CNB) publishes a quarterly property price index (transfer prices according to tax returns) through their Financial Stability Report. It has four classifications of dwellings- 1) family houses; 2) apartments; 3) apartment blocks; and 4) building plots. The time-series started in 1999.