Sentences with phrase «house price index measures»

The First American Real House Price Index measures the price changes of single - family properties and adjusts for the impact of income and interest rate changes across the country.

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The above series is Statistics Canada's New Housing Price Index (NHPI), which «measures changes over time in the contractors» selling prices of new residential houses, where detailed specifications pertaining to each house remain the same between two consecutive periods.»

Its Cost of Living Index measures prices in 269 urban areas for housing, groceries, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services such as getting your hair done or going to a movie.

This is done by indexing property valuations (typically provided at the time a loan is originated) by a measure of housing prices and accounting for offset balances.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

To Shiller, whose Case - Shiller Home Price Index is widely recognized as the best measure of U.S. house prices, the parallel between the U.S. bubble and Canada's run - up in home prices measured by the Teranet index is obvIndex is widely recognized as the best measure of U.S. house prices, the parallel between the U.S. bubble and Canada's run - up in home prices measured by the Teranet index is obvindex is obvious.

Appeal was determined by the number of Google searches for property in the country in May 2014 and price growth was measured in both the short term (six months) and long term (12 month) using data from Knight Frank's Global House Price Iprice growth was measured in both the short term (six months) and long term (12 month) using data from Knight Frank's Global House Price IPrice Index.

In housing, there remains a wide gap between broad home price indices and measures of personal income, even adjusting for mortgage rates.

The lesson sets out to answer the following learning objectives: * All Students will know how inflation levels are measured * Most Students will know the different problems caused by inflation * Some Students will know the difference between cost push and demand pull inflation The lesson helps students fully understand the key concepts of inflation and covers the following topics in good detail: * Inflation * Retail Price Index (RPI) * Cost push inflation * Demand pull inflation * Price stability The 2nd lesson then goes on to link key theory to the housing market (a typical exam topic) and how inflation can impact that industry.

Another error that people make is to look at measures of the volatility of house prices, but house price indices are very poor from that point of view.

The Monthly Housing Affordability Index measures whether or not a typical family earns enough income to qualify for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national and regional levels based on the most recent monthly price and income data.

The return from housing was measured solely as the increase in the level of the Teranet — National Bank National Composite House Price Index and does not account for rental income from a property.

Evidently, pressure is building from the very top that RPI is a discredited measure of inflation which should be abolished to save the government money; but many employee pensions are linked to RPI, and unions would strongly oppose any attempt to shift to a less volatile measure which would reduce payouts, such as the consumer price index (CPI) or the ONS» preferred index, «consumer price inflation including owner - occupiers» housing costs» (CPIH).

A February 2008 paper, «Comparison of House Price Measures,» found the index uses a very different mix of markets and weights than OFHEO.

The Monthly Housing Affordability Index measures whether or not a typical family earns enough income to qualify for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national and regional levels based on the most recent monthly price and income data.

The Quarterly Housing Affordability Index measures whether or not a typical family qualifies for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national and regional levels based on quarterly price and income data, as well as a look at affordability conditions for first time buyers.

The Housing Affordability Index measures whether or not a typical family earns enough income to qualify for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national and regional levels based on the most recent monthly price and income data.

The Case - Shiller 20 - city index measure of house prices was up 8.1 % year over year for the January report.

Home prices increased in August with the highest monthly gain since September 2015, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index, which measures single - family hHousing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index, which measures single - family housinghousing.

Case - Shiller is considered the leading measure of national home values because the index analyzes the price of the same house over time.

Several local real estate boards have already reported their sales numbers for April ahead of the Teranet - National Bank House Price Index due out on Wednesday and Canadian Real Estate Association's measure of national resale prices set to be released Friday.

When a claim is submitted, ValueInsured will pay an amount equal to the lesser of the actual loss in sales price, loss in the state home price index as measured by the Federal Housing Finance Agency or the insured down payment.

Housing Affordability Index (HAI) The Housing Affordability Index (computed by Axiometrics) is a measure of whether a family in an MSA earning the median family income can qualify for a mortgage loan on a median - priced, existing single - family home.

NAR's Housing Affordability Index measures household buying power based on the relationship between median family income, median home price and average mortgage interest rate.

The hedonic procedures used to create the index are described in «Hedonic versus repeat - sales housing price indexes for measuring the recent boom - bust cycle,» by Dorsey, R.E., Hu, H., Mayer, W.J., and Wang, H.C., Journal of Housing Economics 19 (2), 75 &mdahousing price indexes for measuring the recent boom - bust cycle,» by Dorsey, R.E., Hu, H., Mayer, W.J., and Wang, H.C., Journal of Housing Economics 19 (2), 75 &mdaHousing Economics 19 (2), 75 — 93.

The PNC Christmas Price Index ® is similar to the U.S. Consumer Price Index, which measures the changing prices of goods and services like housing, food, clothing, transportation and more that reflect the spending habits of the average American.

Neighborhood appreciation rates from NeighborhoodScout are based on both median house value data reported by respondents via the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and a weighted repeat sales index, meaning that they measure average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties.