Three New Real Estate Price Indices for Geneva, Switzerland

Martin Hoesli, Carmelo Giaccotto () and Philippe Favarger

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 1997, vol. 15, issue 1, 93-109

Abstract: This paper develops constant-quality price indices for three categories of real estate-apartment buildings, vacant land, and condominiums--for the city of Geneva, Switzerland. We use both the hedonic and repeat sales models to estimate the price level and, in turn, the rate of price change. The general pattern of each series suggests that real estate prices in Geneva were fairly stable throughout the 1970s, increased sharply during the 1980s, but gave back some of these gains in the early 1990s. Interestingly, the sharp rise in prices in the second half of the 1980s is very similar to that found in some regions of the United States. We also consider the problem, implicit in the repeat sales method, of revisions in previously estimated price indices as additional data become available in later years. Copyright 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1997
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