| Documentation: | House Price Index 2009 |
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Publisher: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (HPI)
Survey: House Price Index 2009
| Document: | House Price Index Technical Documentation |
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House Price Index Technical Documentation
The ASCII data for metropolitan areas are normalized to the first quarter of 1995. That is, the HPI equals 100 for all MSAs in the first quarter of 1995. States and divisions are normalized to 100 in the first quarter of 1980. The purchase-only indexes are normalized to 100 in the first quarter of 1991. Note that normalization dates do not affect measured appreciation rates.
