Today, the Reserve Bank released the quarterly house price index (HPI)¹ (base: 2010-11=100) for Q4:2017-18, based on transactions data received from housing registration authorities in ten major cities (viz., Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kanpur and Kochi). Time series data on All-India and city-wise HPI are available in the Database of Indian Economy (DBIE) portal (https://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=statistics > RealSector > Price&Wages > Quarterly).

Highlights:

• The All-India HPI recorded a sequential increase of 0.3 per cent in Q4:2017-18 over Q3:2017-18.

• In sequential terms, Kochi recorded the highest rise (11.2 per cent) and Kolkata recorded the minimum rise (0.5 per cent).

• Delhi (-3.4 per cent) and Ahmedabad (-1.9 per cent) recorded decline in HPI from the previous quarter.

• On a year-on-year basis, the all-India HPI recorded a growth of 6.7 per cent in Q4:2017-18 as against 7.2 per cent in the previous quarter and 10.4 per cent a year ago.

• In terms of annual growth rates, large divergences can be observed in city-wise house price movements.

Anirudha D. Jadhav
Assistant Manager

Press Release: 2018-2019/179

¹ Compiled in the Statistical Analysis Division of the Department of Statistics and Information Management, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai. Reference may be made to the article “House Price Index: 2010-11 to 2013-14” in October 2014 issue of the RBI Bulletin (weblink: https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx) for HPI compilation methodology and the related caveats.