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: October to December 2018

  Understanding 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.

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