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The Wisconsin Real Estate Program is committed to undertaking and disseminating the highest quality research that addresses timely, relevant, and compelling issues pertaining to real estate markets, business and public policy, the urban economy, urban and regional economics, finance, planning, land use, and infrastructure.

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Rent-Price Ratio

The ratio of rents to prices in the aggregate for U.S. owner-occupied homes.

These quarterly data, starting in 1960, provide the average ratio of estimated annual rents to house prices for the aggregate stock of housing in the United States. The rental data are gross and do not account for income taxes or depreciation.

Aggregate US Land Prices

The price and value of land and location in the aggregate for all U.S. homes (owner-occupied and rental).

The data provided here contain three sets of estimates of the price and quantities of land, structures, and housing used for residential purposes in the aggregate United States. Two of the data sets are quarterly, starting in 1975:1. The third data set is annual covering the 1930-2000 period. The quarterly data sets are constructed using higher quality data and are more accurate than the annual data.

Metro Area Land Prices

The price and value of land for owner-occupied homes for 46 large U.S. metro areas.

The data provided here contain estimates of the average value of housing, land, and structures, and price indexes for land and housing, for the average single-family detached owner-occupied housing unit in each of 46 large metropolitan areas in the United States. The data set is quarterly spanning the 1984:4 – 2016:1 period.