The Interpretation of House Price Statistics for the United Kingdom

M C Fleming and J G Nellis

Environment and Planning A, 1981, vol. 13, issue 9, 1109-1124

Abstract: A survey is made of all official and unofficial sources of statistics on house prices in the UK. This is followed by a critical appraisal of the evidence they provide about national and regional price levels and about house price inflation. Attention is focused on two crucial factors: the representativeness of the data and the heterogeneity of houses. It is concluded that incomplete coverage of all house transactions means that most series tend to overstate price levels and that intertemporal and interregional comparisons are sensitive to the composition by type of houses traded.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1068/a131109

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