US house price index, quarterly
All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States (index 1980:Q1=100, not seasonally adjusted; FRED USSTHPI, U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, House Price Index release, quarterly 1975-Q1 onward). Estimated from sales prices and appraisal data. Carries 1-quarter and 4-quarter percent changes and a contraction_flag marking quarters with a year-on-year price decline. FHFA revises history with each vintage (kept as published).
- Rows
- 206
- Columns
- 9
- Source cadence
- Quarterly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 2, 2026
- Theme
- housing
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| quarter_start | date | First day of the calendar quarter. (unit: date) |
| year_quarter | string | Calendar quarter as YYYY-QN (panel join key). (unit: string) |
| country | string | Country name (shared normalization layer). (unit: string) |
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (USA). (unit: string) |
| hpi_index | float | All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States (FRED USSTHPI; U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, House Price Index release; estimated from sales prices and appraisal data). (unit: index 1980:Q1=100, NSA) |
| hpi_qoq_pct | float | 1-quarter percent change of the index (null for the first panel quarter). (unit: percent) |
| hpi_yoy_pct | float | 4-quarter percent change of the index (null for the first panel year). (unit: percent) |
| contraction_flag | integer | 1 when the 4-quarter index change is negative (year-on-year price decline), else 0. (unit: flag) |
| row_hash | string | Deterministic 16-hex sha256 of year_quarter + USA + the index level (idempotency key). (unit: string) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| quarter_start | year_quarter | country | country_code | hpi_index | hpi_qoq_pct | hpi_yoy_pct | contraction_flag | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-01-01 | 1975-Q1 | United States | USA | 60.04 | — | — | 0 | 409b316c75cbbacd |
| 1975-04-01 | 1975-Q2 | United States | USA | 60.98 | 1.566 | — | 0 | bfe3a62ca23fb67d |
| 1975-07-01 | 1975-Q3 | United States | USA | 61.3 | 0.525 | — | 0 | 8786081dcc31e929 |
| 1975-10-01 | 1975-Q4 | United States | USA | 62.31 | 1.648 | — | 0 | 0acaf0b1bb4a8502 |
| 1976-01-01 | 1976-Q1 | United States | USA | 62.95 | 1.027 | 4.847 | 0 | cfb70ba4eb51e21c |
| 1976-04-01 | 1976-Q2 | United States | USA | 65.48 | 4.019 | 7.379 | 0 | da9dddf2d59afcf5 |
| 1976-07-01 | 1976-Q3 | United States | USA | 66.58 | 1.68 | 8.613 | 0 | 6ec16a245677e520 |
| 1976-10-01 | 1976-Q4 | United States | USA | 67.28 | 1.051 | 7.976 | 0 | 4eca67d02f0f5b1b |
| 1977-01-01 | 1977-Q1 | United States | USA | 69.49 | 3.285 | 10.389 | 0 | a959eae6ba3c02c3 |
| 1977-04-01 | 1977-Q2 | United States | USA | 72.67 | 4.576 | 10.98 | 0 | e2d1aa58a0168fd3 |
- Current
20261002T045147Z-79cb65e6eb37 · sha256 79cb65e6eb37…
206 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred_housing_pack/us_house_price_index_quarterly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred_housing_pack/us_house_price_index_quarterly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred_housing_pack/us_house_price_index_quarterly
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US Regional Housing Intelligence (FRED, keyless). (2026). US house price index, quarterly [Data set, snapshot 20261002T045147Z-79cb65e6eb37, sha256 79cb65e6eb37]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/fred_housing_pack/us_house_price_index_quarterly?snapshot=20261002T045147Z-79cb65e6eb37
@misc{dz_fred_housing_pack_us_house_price_index_q_79cb65e6,
title = {{US house price index, quarterly}},
author = {{US Regional Housing Intelligence (FRED, keyless)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/fred_housing_pack/us_house_price_index_quarterly?snapshot=20261002T045147Z-79cb65e6eb37}},
note = {Snapshot 20261002T045147Z-79cb65e6eb37, sha256 79cb65e6eb371f26a85002668ed231841cc496e9ae12e27f6ab7718636962916; accessed 2026-10-02}
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