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Statistics and Data Sources by Subject

Housing

Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of: User Datasets

"HUD provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets generated by [HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research] PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, median family incomes and income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population." (source: website)

 

Realtor.com Data

Housing inventory and sales trends, reports, and additional research

 

Redfin Data Center

Downloadable housing market data includes pricing, sales, and inventory statistics. 

 

S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

U.S. Home Price Indices originally developed by Wellesley College economics professor Karl Case and Yale University economics professor Robert Schiller. From 1991-2002, this data was produced by Case Shiller Weiss, Inc. It is now produced by CoreLogic. Many of these price indices, including 20 cities, low-, medium-, and high-tier home price indices, condominium indices, and a U.S. national index are now published by Standard & Poor's and can be found at the link above. Eleven of these indices are traded at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Information on these futures markets can be found here. (source: website)

 

U.S. Home Prices, 1890-Present (note: this link opens an Excel Workbook)

Historical housing market data used in Yale University economic professor Robert Shiller's book, Irrational Exuberance [Princeton University Press 2000, Broadway Books 2001, 2nd edition, 2005], showing home prices since 1890 are updated monthly. (the first sheet tab of the workbook is a graph; the second sheet tab contains the dataset)

 

Zillow Data

Includes: median home value - Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Rent Index (ZRI) and other rental indices, as well as other metrics and additional data products.  Users may also download a single file containing all Zillow metrics.