.... The relatively disappointing performance of these indices, combined with the cost of augmenting the Land Registry data, again preclude us from estimating hybrid indices for British metropolitan housing markets. From the review of the three main methods of index construction and their variants, it is clear...

...Christian Janssen; Bo Söderberg; Julie Zhou Real estate market data often contain outliers in the observations. Since outliers have a large influence on least squares estimates, robust regression methods have been recommended for this situation. Compares the performance of least squares and least...