1.1. Contact organisation
Croatian Bureau of Statistics
1.2. Contact organisation unit
Price Statistics and European Comparison Programme Department
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Ulica Pavla Šubića 29, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
1.6. Contact email address
Confidential because of GDPR
1.7. Contact phone number
Confidential because of GDPR
1.8. Contact fax number
Confidential because of GDPR
2.1. Metadata last update
6 November 2025
2.2. Metadata last certified
6 November 2025
2.3. Metadata last posted
6 November 2025
3.1. Data description
The House Price Index (HPI) is quarterly indicator that measures the changes in the dwellings transaction prices that households acquire on the market.
The data on HPI are provided in the form of an overall index number comprising two sub-indices: Purchases of newly built dwellings and Purchases of existing dwellings. The national HPI is provided with additional stratification: the City of Zagreb, the Adriatic coast and Other.
3.2. Classification system
The HPI is classified according to the following categories:
H.1. Purchases of dwellings:
- H.1.1. Purchases of newly built dwellings.
- H.1.2. Purchases of existing dwellings.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Household sector.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The HPI covers all transactions of dwellings made by households independently of their previous owners and independently of their final use. Transaction prices include a value of land.
3.5. Statistical unit
The basic statistical unit of the HPI are transaction prices of dwellings purchased by households, irrespective of the institutional sector from which they were bought or the purpose of the purchase.
3.6. Statistical population
The target population is the set of all transactions of dwellings purchased by households.
3.7. Reference area
The HPI covers the entire area of the country.
3.8. Coverage - Time
Data are available since the first quarter of 2008.
3.9. Base period
The index reference period is 2015=100.
The following units of measure are available:
- Index: equal 100 in the base period;
- Annual and quarterly rates of change – in percentage;
- Weights are given as parts in 1000.
The compiled quarterly indices represent the whole calendar quarter.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
National legislation:
Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No. 25/20 and 155/23), Annual Implementation Plan of Statistical Activities of the Republic of Croatia (only in Croatian).
European legislation:
The basic act for the compilation of the HPI is the European Parliament and Council Regulation (EU) 2016/792, of 11 May 2016.
The basic methodological and technical specifications for the compilation of the HPI is given by the Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1470 of 17 July 2023.
All relevant regulations as well as repealed legislation and other legal documents can be found in the Housing Price Statistics section on Eurostat's website under => Legislation.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
None.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
National legislation:
Under the Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No. 25/20 and 155/23), the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (CBS) cannot publish, or otherwise make available to any individual or organization, statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or legal entity. Individual data are strictly confidential and must not be published or reported.
European legislation:
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
According to the policy rules (see point 7.1).
8.1. Release calendar
A release schedule for the upcoming year, specifying dates of release is published each December in the CBS Publishing Programme. The exact dates of release are pre-announced each year in the Calendar of Statistical Data Issues.
The Croatian HPI is also published by Eurostat quarterly according to Eurostat’s Release calendar.
8.2. Release calendar access
Calendar of Statistical Data Issues.
8.3. Release policy - user access
Since January 2016, HPI data is released simultaneously to all users at the same time (11:00 CET) by publishing the press release on the CBS website - First release: House Price Indices.
No special users are granted special or pre-access to data.
Quarterly.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
The HPI is published on the CBS website in the form of First release: House Price Indices.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Except from the first release, HPI is included in PC-AXIS databases under Prices section on the CBS website.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
- CBS: PC-AXIS databases - Prices.
- Eurostat: HPI database.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Microdata are not disseminated.
10.5. Dissemination format - other
Not available.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
Short description of the methodology is published in every issue of the First release: House Price Indices and in PC-AXIS databases under Prices section on the CBS website.
HPI metadata is available on Eurostat's website.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Not available.
11.1. Quality assurance
All data are checked for completeness and consistency with statistical concepts and definitions.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
None.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
It’s a general measure of housing price movements in the country. It is of interest to the general public, property appraisers, lawyers, and financial institutions for monetary policy (ECB, Croatian National Bank, etc.).
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Not available.
12.3. Completeness
All sub-indices are calculated according to the EU regulation.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The HPI is perceived to be accurate and to reflect well the overall behaviour of the housing market following the Eurostat’s methodological recommendations and the regulation.
13.2. Sampling error
The CBS does not produce estimates on sampling errors as obtained administrative data cover the whole universe of dwelling transactions.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not available.
14.1. Timeliness
The national HPI is published approximately 100 days after the end of the related quarter according to Calendar of Statistical Data Issues, which also follows the Eurostat’s release calendar.
14.2. Punctuality
Data are sent to Eurostat according to the requirements – no later than 85 days from the end of the quarter to which the indices relate and no later than June 15 of the reference year for weights.
There is no record on delays in the data production so far (see 14.1.).
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Not available.
15.2. Comparability - over time
HPI data considered to be comparable over time since 2008.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Not available.
15.4. Coherence - internal
All figures are checked for internal consistency.
Not available.
17.1. Data revision - policy
HPI series are revisable under the terms set in articles 27 to 29 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 2023/1470 of 17 July 2023. The published HPI data may be revised for mistakes, new or improved information, and changes in the system of harmonised rules.
17.2. Data revision - practice
Eurostat and public will be informed about possible non-periodic revisions.
18.1. Source data
See below.
18.1.1. Prices
Data source for price of newly built and existing dwelling is Tax Administration database of the Ministry of Finance.
18.1.2. Weights
Data source for weights of newly built and existing dwelling is Tax Administration database of the Ministry of Finance.
18.1.3. Source data - House Sales indicators
Not available.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Data are collected quarterly.
18.3. Data collection
Administrative data are received through the use of an electronic protocol established between the CBS and the Tax Administration according to pre-defined deadlines.
18.4. Data validation
Data are checked for internal consistency in terms of eliminating errors in the database and records with unrealistically high or low values of characteristics which is important to achieve homogeneity.
18.5. Data compilation
See below.
18.5.1. Calculation and Aggregation
See below.
18.5.1.1. Index formulae
HPI is a Laspeyres-type price index.
18.5.1.2. Aggregation method
The HPI for the whole territory of Croatia is calculated from the six sub-indices for three defined geographic areas of Croatia. These indices are then aggregated to higher levels (index for newly built and existing dwellings) and level total for the whole country.
18.5.1.3. Derivation of sub-index and elementary aggregate weights
The weights are calculated on the basis of dwelling transactions values from the previous year.
18.5.1.4. Price updating
Weights are price-updated on the basis of the dwellings prices that were bought in the last quarter of the previous year.
18.5.1.5. Chaining and linking method
The HPI is chained on a yearly basis using the fourth quarter of the previous year as the linking period.
18.5.1.6. Compilation of sub-indices
Hedonic methods are applied for calculations of newly built and existing sub-indices.
18.5.1.6.1. Hedonic method
The index compilation starts with pre-defined hedonic regression models according to variables which are defined on the basis of available dwelling characteristics. Until the end of 2011, standard time-dummy hedonic regression was used in the calculation of indices, while since the first quarter of 2012, they have been calculated by using a rolling window time-dummy hedonic regression (four quarters window) due to availability of extended set of dwelling characteristics data. These indices are then aggregated to the total index for new and existing dwellings and to the total HPI for the whole country.
18.5.1.6.2. SPAR method
Not applicable.
18.5.1.6.3. Stratification
Stratification is based on:
- Three defined geographic areas of Croatia, and
- Types of purchased dwellings (newly built and existing dwellings).
18.5.2. Other processing issues
See below.
18.5.2.1. Timing for pricing
Transaction prices are fixed in the buying contract and date of contract must be in the quarter for which the index is calculated.
18.5.2.2. Treatment of VAT
VAT is included in the price of newly built dwellings.
18.5.2.3. Treatment of other taxes
Taxes other than VAT are not included in the price of dwellings.
18.5.2.4. Treatment of government subsidies
The HPI includes only transactions at market prices. As transactions which include government subsidies are normally below market prices, they are excluded from the HPI.
18.5.2.5. Treatment of land
The price of land is included in both prices and weights.
18.5.2.6. Housing cooperatives
Housing cooperatives are not covered in the HPI (this type of dwelling is not currently representative in the Croatian context).
18.5.2.7. Treatment of non-market transactions
Non-market transactions such as transactions of the government subsidies can be identified by additional indicators and they are not included in the HPI calculation.
Also, for the purpose of detecting non-market transactions, the realized transaction prices can be compared to available values for the calculation of real estate transfer tax.
Transactions related to inheritance and donation are not provided by the Tax Administration.
Further exclusion of non-market transaction is done through identification of outliers at various stages of compilation of the HPI.
18.5.2.8. Treatment of multi-object transactions
In general, multi-object transactions can be identified through descriptive information of dwelling from Tax Administration database and are excluded from calculation of the HPI.
18.5.2.9. Treatment of fractional transactions
Fractional transactions are included in calculation.
In case when more than two counterparties are involved in a buying/selling transaction with different shares, detection of unique dwelling transaction is done for the purpose of representing one transaction with realized price.
18.5.2.10. Outliers detection
The initial outliers detection is set up to eliminate 5% of records with unrealistically high or low values in combination of predetermined limits for each stratum.
After initial validation, the regression models are used to detect any remaining outliers – studentized residual for each dwelling transaction is calculated and if it is higher than specified value, the transaction is identified as an outlier and removed from regression model and final compilation.
18.5.2.11. Treatment of incomplete data source coverage
Due to the lack of some information in administrative dataset (eg. year of construction of the dwellings) the data is fulfilled from available historical datasets where possible (eg. according to the address of the dwelling).
18.6. Adjustment
No adjustments other than quality adjustment are applied to the HPI data.
None.
The House Price Index (HPI) is quarterly indicator that measures the changes in the dwellings transaction prices that households acquire on the market.
The data on HPI are provided in the form of an overall index number comprising two sub-indices: Purchases of newly built dwellings and Purchases of existing dwellings. The national HPI is provided with additional stratification: the City of Zagreb, the Adriatic coast and Other.
6 November 2025
The HPI covers all transactions of dwellings made by households independently of their previous owners and independently of their final use. Transaction prices include a value of land.
The basic statistical unit of the HPI are transaction prices of dwellings purchased by households, irrespective of the institutional sector from which they were bought or the purpose of the purchase.
The target population is the set of all transactions of dwellings purchased by households.
The HPI covers the entire area of the country.
The compiled quarterly indices represent the whole calendar quarter.
The HPI is perceived to be accurate and to reflect well the overall behaviour of the housing market following the Eurostat’s methodological recommendations and the regulation.
The following units of measure are available:
- Index: equal 100 in the base period;
- Annual and quarterly rates of change – in percentage;
- Weights are given as parts in 1000.
See below.
See below.
Quarterly.
The national HPI is published approximately 100 days after the end of the related quarter according to Calendar of Statistical Data Issues, which also follows the Eurostat’s release calendar.
Not available.
HPI data considered to be comparable over time since 2008.
