Chapter 9 House price indices for Norway (pdf, 511 kB), is written by Øyvind Eitrheim and Solveig Erlandsen and contains historical house price indices for the cities of Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Kristiansand, as well as an aggregated house price index from 1819 to 2003.

The house price indices for the period 1819 to 1985 are estimated on the basis of nominal transaction prices of real property, compiled from the property registers of the four cities, using the repeat sales method.

Updates and revisions

The printed book provides detailed documentation of the historical database as of June 2004. Updates and revisions are listed below.

February 2010

Table A1. House price indices for Norway