China House Price Index: 70 Cities Monthly (NBS)

Get the official China house price indexes for 70 cities, straight from the monthly releases of the National Bureau of Statistics of China (国家统计局), as clean JSON. No login, no Excel wrangling, no Chinese needed.

• 70 cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and 66 more, with English names and city tiers (1, 2, 3)
• New homes (新建商品住宅) and second-hand homes (二手住宅)
• Month on month, year on year and year-to-date indexes, plus ready-made % changes
• By home size: under 90 m², 90-144 m², over 144 m²
• History: every monthly release on the NBS site, back to about 2022

Use cases

• Macro and real-estate research: track China's property market city by city, every month.
• Investors and banks: China property developers, mortgage and construction exposure; tier-1 vs tier-3 divergence.
• Dashboards: schedule a monthly run (releases come out around the 15th) and push the results to Google Sheets, BigQuery or your BI tool.
• Journalism and academia: clean, sourced time series with a link to the official release.

Example input

{
  "monthFrom": "2025-01",
  "cities": ["Beijing", "Shanghai", "Shenzhen", "Guangzhou"],
  "housingTypes": ["newHome", "secondHand"]
}

Leave everything empty to get the latest month for all 70 cities (140 records).

Output

One record per city, month and housing type:

{
  "type": "cityHousePrice",
  "month": "2026-08",
  "city": "北京",
  "cityEnglish": "Beijing",
  "cityTier": 1,
  "housingType": "newHome",
  "momIndex": 99.8,
  "yoyIndex": 97.7,
  "ytdAvgIndex": 97.8,
  "momChangePct": -0.2,
  "yoyChangePct": -2.3,
  "under90sqm": { "mom": 99.7, "yoy": 96.7, "ytdAvg": 96.7 },
  "from90to144sqm": { "mom": 99.7, "yoy": 96.8, "ytdAvg": 96.9 },
  "over144sqm": { "mom": 99.9, "yoy": 99.2, "ytdAvg": 99.1 },
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/zxfb/202609/t20260915_1965304.html",
  "releaseTitle": "2026年8月份70个大中城市商品住宅销售价格变动情况"
}

• Indexes follow the NBS convention: previous period = 100. momIndex 99.8 means prices fell 0.2% from the previous month; momChangePct gives that directly.
• ytdAvgIndex compares the average from January to this month with the same period last year. January releases have no separate year-to-date figure, so it is null for January.
• cityTier: 1 = Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen; 2 = the other 31 large cities; 3 = the 35 medium-sized cities.

Pricing

$0.001 per city record. The latest month for all cities (140 records) costs $0.14; four years of history for all cities costs about $7.

Notes and limits

• These are official price indexes, not prices per m². NBS does not publish prices per m² for these cities.
• A month is published around the 15th of the following month. A month that isn't out yet is skipped and reported in the log.
• Data is parsed from the official release pages and every record links to its source.

Related

• China Car Price Cuts and China Car Sales: China's car market by city and by month.

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