South Africa Real House Prices (12-Month Change)

## What this measures

The change in South Africa's residential property prices from a year earlier, after inflation, from the BIS selected property price series (national sources).

## Why it matters

House prices drive household wealth and bank collateral; real changes show whether housing is getting dearer relative to everything else.

## How to read it

Real prices rose 1.2% in the year to the second quarter of 2026. The series runs back to 1967.

## What it does not say

National averages hide large differences between cities, and coverage of the underlying index differs by country.

## Source

Bank for International Settlements, Selected residential property prices, real, year-on-year change, series `WS_SPP/Q.ZA.R.771` (stats.bis.org). Palanor reads the full series every day. Source: BIS. Used under the BIS terms for statistics: reuse is unrestricted with the BIS cited as the source, and the statistics carry no additional charge in Palanor.