INSEE - The French National Institut for Statistics.

The Housing and Welath Division belongs to Department of Household Resources and Living Conditions.

Department of Household Resources and Living Conditions belongs to Directorate of Economic and Social Statistics, one of the central directorates of INSEE

88 Avenue Verdier CS 70058 92541 MONTROUGE CEDEX FRANCE

The OOHPI is based on the ‘net acquisitions’ approach, which measures changes in prices paid by households for the acquisition of dwellings that are new to the household sector and changes in other costs related to the ownership, and transfer of ownership, of dwellings.

The OOHPI is broken down into the following expenditure categories:

• O.1. Owner-occupiers’ housing expenditure;
  • O.1.1. Acquisitions of dwellings;
    • O.1.1.1. New dwellings;
      • O.1.1.1.1. Purchases of newly built dwellings;
      • O.1.1.1.2. Self-build dwellings and major renovations;
    • O.1.1.2. Existing dwellings new to households;
    • O.1.1.3. Other services related to the acquisition of dwellings;
  • O.1.2. Ownership of dwellings;
    • O.1.2.1. Major repairs and maintenance;
    • O.1.2.2. Insurance connected with dwellings;
    • O.1.2.3. Other services related to ownership of dwellings.

Households which are owner occupiers.

The main statistical variables are price indices.

The basic unit of statistical observation are transaction prices of dwellings new to the household sector and of other products that the households acquire in their role as owner-occupiers.

Owner occupied dwellings.

French OOHPI covers France excluding overseas areas.

Data are available from 2009Q1.

2015=100

The following units are used:

- Index point;
- Percentage change on the same period of the previous year (rates);
- Percentage change on the previous period (rates);
- Percentage share of the total (weights).

OOHPI is a quarterly statistics.

Legal acts and other agreements - EU level :

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1470

EU regulation 2016/792 provides for the quarterly transmission of OOHPI data by 85 days after the end of the quarter and of the annual weights by 15 June of year following the year to which the weights relate.

Not applicable.

Data are published up to the level of detail described in the HPI and OOHPI implementing Regulation.

Not applicable.

The French OOHPI is published by Eurostat according to Eurostat's schedule. It is not published otherwise by INSEE .

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Quarterly (OOHPI) and annually (weights)

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No publication contains the overall OOHPI data, yet the published sub indices (O1111 in the HPI publication, O121 as "IPEA" on its own) are published quarterly on insee.fr

No, yet the published sub indices (O1111 in the HPI publication, O121 as "IPEA" on its own) are available on insee.fr

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

There is no specific documentation for France, Eurostat's Technical manual on Owner-Occupied Housing and House Price Indices (2017) is the basis used for compiling the index.

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All data are checked for completeness and consistency according to the statistical concepts and definitions.

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The aggregation of the sub-indices to the OOHPI is made specifically for Eurostat.

The OOHPI meets the specifications set out in the Regulation.

The OOHPI meets the specifications set out in the Regulation.

There are no estimates of the overall accuracy of the OOHPI.

No sampling for new dwellings price (exhaustive survey). Self build dwellings and major renovations are sampled using quarterly 500 building permits over 30000. Other services concerning acquisition is computed from several notaries fees. Major repairs and maintenance is computed using firms which answer to the statistical business survey. Insurance and other services concerning ownership are computed using the French CPI sample.

Non available.

Data are sent according to HPI and OOHPI regulations: 85 days after the end of the reference period (indexes) and no later than June 15th of the year following the reference year (weights).

Data are delivered on time, following the 2016/792 Regulation.

Only one overall index is given for France (no regional breakdowns)

Data are comparable over time.

There are no other potential sources of OOHPI.

The newly built dwellings price index used in the OOHPI is also used in the HPI.

0.2 FTE for a statistician is needed for compilating the sub-indices and answering Eurostat.

OOHPI is revised for the last quarter.

Results are more accurate after revision.

See below.

Data concerning the different items are collected either by surveys, or using the CPI sample (see 13.2). 

The weights between the different items are calculated from the Housing National Accounts.

Data are collected quarterly for the construction surveys and monthly for the CPI.

See above.

Validations of the data collection are made including checks for aberrant values.

See below.

See below.

OOHPI is a Laspeyres-type price index.

Sub-indices are aggregated by means of weights derived from global amounts provided by National Accounts.

Aggregate weights are computed from amounts provided by National Accounts.

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See below.

First binding contract.

VAT is included in the price of newly built dwellings.

Other taxes are not included in the price of dwellings.

Government subsidies or fiscal incentives are not taken care of in the OOHPI.

The price of land is included in both prices and weights.

Housing cooperatives are not included.

Excluded

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See below.

Aggregation is performed based on weighted average of indices.

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Regarding indices, most of the components (excluding newly build dwelling index and components coming from HICP) exclude VAT, as they as regarded as producer prices. Yet weights are computed on a consistent basis, including VAT for each component.

No specific other adjustments.

None.