Real Estate data sources
Here’s a summary of some major sources of data on the US real estate market.
Housing price indexes are available from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (federal agency, part of HUD), and also from Standard&Poor’s. The OFHEO and S&P data are apparently calculated using similar, but not identical, formulas; Calculated Risk has a discussion of the differences.
There are also figures from the National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Home Builders, two trade groups which monitor the housing industry for their members. HousingTracker.net spiders the NAR web site and extracts current market data on major metropolitan areas.
The US Census publishes various statistics on housing construction: this includes the Housing Starts figures that are covered prominently in the press every month, as well as construction spending, manufacturing housing, and more.
Vandema.com has several lists of links to additional resources related to the housing market.
If you have links to additional primary sources of real estate data, please reply in the comments.
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