OFHEO vs. Case-Shiller

OFHEO Case-Shiller

- Purchase Price and Refinance Appraisals

- Purchase Price

- Mortgage data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

-Mortgage data comes from county records

- Equally weights all prices. - Value-weighted, giving more weight to higher priced homes

- covers all states; important when some areas are growing rapidly.

-no data from 13 states