Summary

Owner occupiers’ housing costs (OOH) are the costs of housing services associated with owning, maintaining and living in one’s own home. There is not a single defined measure of OOH because they can be calculated differently depending on what the target is.

Publications

• Measures of owner occupiers' housing costs, UK: July to September 2019

  The different approaches of measuring owner occupiers’ housing costs (OOH) associated with owning, maintaining and living in one's own home.

Data

• Measures of owner occupiers’ housing costs

  Monthly historical time series for all three approaches to measuring owner occupiers' housing costs – payments, rental equivalence and net acquisitions – including contributions to growth from the different approaches, UK.

• Measures of owner occupiers’ housing costs: weights analysis

  Aggregate inflation measure for owner occupiers' housing costs (OOH). Includes monthly time series and weights for all three approaches of measuring OOH – payments, rental equivalence and net acquisitions – aggregated with the Consumer Price Index (CPI), UK.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   18 December 2019 9:30am

   Reason for change

   We are upgrading our systems for this publication. This experimental release for Quarter 3 (July to September) 2019 has been postponed to allow further time for quality assurance. The next release will be published in January and include data for Quarter 3 2019.

2. Previous date

   15 January 2020 9:30am

   Reason for change

   We are upgrading our systems and improving the data sources and methods used in production for this publication. This experimental release for Quarter 3 (July to September) 2019 has been postponed to allow further time for quality assurance. The next release will be published in February 2020 and include data for Quarter 3 2019.