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Home prices in France property prices in France statistics Long Term Data on Home Prices in France French real estate price house prices in France

And Other Aggregates

Presented by Jacques Friggit (*)

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1. Documents updated on a monthly or quarterly basis

· Long term charts (in English) updated monthly about home prices as well as amounts of property transactions, stocks, interest rates, etc. since the 19th century. These charts update analyses presented in the permanent documents mentioned below. Chart 2.2. compares the evolution of home prices in France, the USA and the UK.

· Property transaction tax base (source: MEDOC) (in French) updated monthly, by month, department and tax type.

· Number of existing-home transactions cumulated on last 12 months, updated at least quarterly.

· Complete historical values of the Notaires-INSEE home price indices.

2. Permanent documents in English

· « Comparing Four Secular Home Price Indices » (June 2008). This working paper compares four secular home price indices, some of which go back to the 13th century. It stresses that their long term trend should be interpreted with caution.

· « Long term (1800-2005) Investment in Gold, Bonds, Stocks and Housing in France – with Insights into the USA and the UK : a Few Regularities”» (January 2007). This working paper comments on the evolution of asset prices for the past two centuries. Its exhibit 1 compares French and British home prices in the long term. Its exhibit 2 comments on French American cross-border investments in the past two centuries, in terms of return, volatility and diversifying power.

· Long Term (1800-2005) Series described in exhibit 3 of the working paper above. Concerning home prices, these series may be updated by the quarterly Notaires-INSEE home price indices, which can be downloaded on INSEE’s website (here or there) or above in § 1.

· « Home Prices over the Long Run », presentation at Western Economic Association International 85th Annual Conference, June 2009.

· « The Number of Existing-Home Transactions », English version of a paper published in Études foncières , 126, March - April 2007.

· « Home Purchases by Foreigners in France » , English version of a review published in Études foncières , 129, September - October 2007 about a paper by L.Fauvet.

· «  Long Term Home Prices and Residential Property Investment Performance in Paris in the Time of the French Franc, 1840-2001 », working paper, February 2002.

· English abstract of chapter 3 of Jacques Friggit’s book « Prix des logements, produits financiers immobiliers et gestion des risques » (« Home Prices, Property Financial Instruments and Risk Management ») (Économica publisher, Paris, 2001).

3. Permanent documents in French

3.1. Home and other asset prices in the long term

· « Le lien dans l’espace entre revenu et prix des logements en Ile-de-France » (« The Spatial Relationship between Income and Home Prices in the Paris Region »), short paper published in the property newsletter n°6 (January 2010) of the High Council of French Notaries.

· « Le prix des logements sur longue période » (« Home Prices in the Long Run »), short paper, Informations Sociales, 155, September 2009.

· « Le prix des logements sur longue période » (« Home Prices in the Long Run »), presentation to the directors of FNSCHLM, January 2009.

· «  Le prix des logements en 2004: quelques anormalités historiques » (« Home Prices in 2004 : some Historical Abnormalities ») , Urbanissimo, 78, October 2004.

· «  Placements en actions et en logement : quelques régularités sur longue période » (« Investments in Stocks and Dwellings : some Regularities in the Long Term »), Réflexions immobilières, 33, September 2002.

· «  40 ans de prix des logements en Ile-de-France » (« 40 years of home prices in the Region of Paris ») paper presented at a conference organised by the Council of the Region of Paris and the Interdepartmental Paris Chamber of Notaries, October 23, 2001.

· «  L’évolution sur longue période du prix des logements » (« Long Term Home Price Evolution »), SES synthesis paper, Ministère de l’Équipement, March-April 2001.

3.2. Numbers and amounts of property transactions and property transaction taxes

· « Droits de mutation et montant des transactions immobilières, 1800-2008» (« Property Transaction Taxes and Amounts of Transactions , 1800-2008 »), working paper, April 2009, update of a paper quoted in « Deux siècles de transactions immobilières » (« Two centuries of property transactions ») Études foncières , 103, May-June 2003.

· « Répartition du marché de la négociation de logements anciens depuis 1945  » (« Existing-home brokerage market shares since 1945 ») (November 2008), working paper.

· Two methodological papers: « Diverses évaluations du nombre de transactions de logements anciens » (« Various Estimates of the Number of Existing-Home Transactions »), July 2008 and « Estimation du nombre de transactions de logements anciens à finalité conjoncturelle » (« Estimating the Number of Existing-Home Transactions in the Short Term »), August 2008.

· Amounts of existing property transactions from 1967 to 2001 quoted in « Trente années de transactions immobilières dans l'ancien » (« Thirty years of existing property transactions »), Études foncières , 97, May-June 2002, as well as the erratum of this paper.

· Additional information relating to the paper about the impact of home prices on departments’ budgets published in Études foncières , 92, July-August 2001.

3.3. Other

· « Le statut d’occupation des logements achetés ou construits par des particuliers » (« Tenure of Dwellings Built or Purchased by Individuals ») (June 2007), working paper.

· « Les ventes de logements anciens en viager, 2000-2006 » (« Existing Home “Viager” Sales »), working paper quoted in the paper « Les ventes en viager » (« “Viager”  sales ») published in Études foncières, 132 (March - April 2008).

· «  La saisonnalité du prix des logements » (« Home Price Seasonality »), paper published in Études foncières , 121, May-June 2006.

· «  Dévalorisation et paupérisation des appartements par rapport aux maisons, 1994-2002 » (« Decrease in the Value and Occupants’ Income of Apartments Relative to Detached Houses »), working paper which develops a paper with the same title published in Études foncières , 116 (July-August 2005), as well as a precision.

(*) Conseil général de l’environnement et du développement durable

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