Price increases continue in all indices:
during September, house prices rose by 1.2%, fruit and vegetable prices by 9.5% and the consumer price index by 0.2%.
In addition, the consumer price index rose by 0.2% in September and completed a 2.5% increase since the beginning of the year - in the high range of the inflation target - between 1% -3%.
Rising prices in September, Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
During September, the prices of culture and entertainment increased by 2.6%, and the price index of construction inputs increased by 0.3% this month.
Meanwhile, clothing prices fell 2.1%.
Since the beginning of the year, the price index of residential construction inputs has risen by 4.5% and in the last twelve months, ie September 2021 compared with September 2020, the price index of residential construction inputs has risen by 4.9% due to the rise in the index 1.1%.
Together with the index, the Central Bureau of Statistics also publishes the change in housing prices - a change that is not included in the consumer price index.
In September, price increases continued at a rate of 1.2%.
This emerges from a comparison of the prices of transactions made in July-August with the prices of transactions made in June-July.
Compared to July-August last year, this is a 9.2% increase in apartment prices.
11.8% increase in apartment prices since the beginning of the year, archive, Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
In the segmentation of changes in housing prices by district in these months, price increases were recorded in the following districts: Jerusalem with an increase of 2.5%, Central 1.9%, Tel Aviv 1.8%, South 1.1% and Haifa 0.6%.
In contrast, the Northern District recorded a decrease of 0.5%.
In the segmentation of changes in housing prices by district compared to the corresponding period last year, price increases were recorded in all districts: Jerusalem with an increase of 10.7 percent, Central - 10.5%, North - 9.6%, Tel Aviv - 9.5%, South - 7.3% and Haifa - 6.0%.
In the price index of new dwellings, it was found that their prices rose in these months by 0.8%, thus completing an increase of 11.8% compared with the corresponding period last year.
21.9% of the transactions were carried out with government support (mainly "price per occupant").
