Global Housing Prices Tracker

Source: Bank for International Settlements, Selected residential property prices, BIS WS_SPP 1.0 (data set), BIS Data Portal, accessed 2026-11-03. This tracker uses the selected quarterly series intended for cross-country comparison, not the more granular detailed property-price collection. All four displayed measures are published by BIS.

Nominal and real price indices use average 2010 = 100. An index of 150 indicates a level 50% above that series’ 2010 average. It does not mean an average dwelling costs 150 currency units. A higher index does not make one country more expensive than another. No price-per-square-metre, average home value, rent, mortgage rate or affordability estimate is derived from these indices.

Real indices are nominal residential property price indices deflated by the consumer price index (CPI), as compiled by BIS. Real is an inflation adjustment, not a seasonal adjustment. The tracker does not apply its own CPI, exchange-rate conversion, rebase or seasonal transformation. National compilation methods and seasonal treatment can differ.

Nominal and real annual growth are BIS-published year-on-year percentage changes versus the same quarter one year earlier. They are not quarter-on-quarter or annualised quarterly rates. All four measures retain source flags. Missing or restricted observations and forecasts are not substituted. The tracker does not interpolate gaps; the long historical BIS source itself may include estimates, splicing and interpolation from less frequent historical series.

Coverage differs across jurisdictions and over time. For example, the documented China series covers 70 cities, India’s recent series covers 18 cities, and Brazil covers metropolitan areas. The Japan history includes earlier residential land-price series. Source notes beside the selected country identify several material differences. Consult the BIS selected property-price documentation and BIS source overview before interpreting long-run or cross-country comparisons.

Default order starts with the same 15 economies as the companion global trackers, showing eight cards on mobile. Sorting by value or country name orders all available economies together, with the first 15 shown on desktop or the first eight on mobile. Expand the cards to see the rest. Common-period dates remain based on the original 15 primary economies. Euro-area aggregate data are retained as a separate economy; member countries overlap it. The World, Advanced economies and Emerging market economies aggregate series are excluded from this country-focused selection. The tracker does not build a world index by adding national indices.

Latest per economy uses each measure’s latest available quarter. Common period aligns cards and the full overview to the latest quarter shared by the 15 primary economies with available data. The chart and its metrics retain their own dated histories. Observations more than nine months behind and source checks older than seven days carry warnings.

The selected observations are quarterly. BIS updates its property-price data set monthly; commentary is published quarterly. One shared background check is scheduled daily, with bounded retries and backoff. Public rendering and the local read-only endpoint never contact BIS. Failed or incomplete responses retain the verified cache. WP-Cron or a host cron must run for automatic checks; source-check dates are not observation or publication dates.

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