Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192345 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 363
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This article uses the Case-Shiller technique for constructing housing price indices on a Norwegian data set of transactions for the period 1991-2002 consisting of 10 376 pairs of repeated sales. Using a weighted least squares scheme in order to control for heteroskedasticity, we construct a general housing price index by regressing differences in log prices for the subset of repeated sales of same, and thus identical, homes onto a set of binary time variables, one for each quarter in the period. The constructed index shows that nominal prices for identical homes in general have increased by a factor of 3.58 over the 11-year period, while the CPI increased by 1.28, creating substantial capital returns for early purchasers. We then segment the data set into five different housing types in order to control for finite mixtures of hedonic features, and find that price indices for the smallest and largest type show nominal increases by factors 4.40 and 2.77, respectively.
Subjects: 
distribution
hedonic model
housing price bubble
housing price index
inequality
repeated sales model
segmented housing types
JEL: 
C20
D40
G20
R21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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