Data on Rent-Price Ratio

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy provides free data on housing rents, prices and taxes. The latest addition is data on the rent price ratio.

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Rent-price graph: This chart graphs the ratio of the annual rent to price by quarter, starting in 1960:1. After 2000, the red line shows the rent-price ratio when house prices are extrapolated using the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)—formerly Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO)—“purchase-only” price index. The blue line shows the path of the ratio when house prices are extrapolated using the Macromarkets LLC national house price index (formerly Case-Shiller-Weiss).