Understand housing indexes versus listing asking prices
Use the NAS Live worksheet to understand housing indexes versus listing asking prices. Keep facts, missing evidence and assumptions separate before continuing.
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- What does this series measure and over which period?
- Are the compared observations genuinely like for like?
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Identify what is measured
An asking price, achieved transaction price, valuation and published housing index describe different things. A change in the mix of listed homes can change an average without proving appreciation.
Keep series comparable
For an official series, retain the source, period, geographic coverage, base and methodology. Do not combine unlike series or infer neighbourhood growth from a city-level figure.
Do not turn snapshots into forecasts
Repeated database snapshots hours or days apart are not a validated quarterly or yearly trend. This page provides no price forecast; any later numeric analysis needs dated compatible observations.