The covered property styles are commercial housing, villas, and economically affordable housing. Figures are areal price (Chinese yuan per square meter, CNY per m²), percent change month-over-month (% M/M), or percent change year-over-year (% Y/Y), not seasonally adjusted (NSA). The series start at June 2010.

Geo coverage is the nation and the top 100 cities of China: four provinces, 92 prefecture-level cities and four county-level cities (see related article), with geo code patterns as follows. The national value is the average over the 100 cities.

• ICHN_aa     = Province, state or federal district
• ICHN_aaa    = Prefecture-level city
• ICHN_nnnnnn = County-level city

The series reside in the historical catalog (China » Real Estate » China Index Academy » 100-City Price) and include, for example:

• HPLIAAVGUM.ICHN      = New house price - Average, (CNY per m², NSA)
• HPLIAMEDUM.ICHN_BE   = New house price - Median, (CNY per m², NSA) - for Beijing
• HP%IAMUM.ICHN_GUA    = New house price, (% M/M, NSA) - for Guangzhou
• HP%IAYUM.ICHN_320583 = New house price, (% Y/Y, NSA) - for Kunshan

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.