The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) currently only includes rentals for housing (paid by tenants) and auxiliary housing expenditures (paid by both tenants and owners). The inclusion of an item for owner-occupied housing (OOH) would be desirable for both representativeness and...

Owing to newly available data sources for weighting from the 2011 Census of buildings and housing and data on the number of transactions and transaction values for Germany, this paper expands the previous method of calculating house price indices at the Deutsche Bundesbank with regard to...