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Justin Contat; William D. Larson
We develop a framework for estimating city-level repeat-sales house price indices that are robust to submarket appreciation and sampling heterogeneity, two issues that confound classic approaches. A new algorithm ensures feasible estimation in all periods, despite cases of low transactions counts in some submarkets. With the geometric Laspeyres index as our target, numerical simulations show this algorithm uncovers the population index even when house prices, quantities, and transaction sampling vary across locations and over time. Then, using 40 million repeat-purchase transactions in the United States, we show differences exist between this index and transaction-weighted indices over certain periods and locations, especially in large cities.
