Rents have always been important in measures of inflation, due to their outsize share in most household budgets: They comprise a little over 30% of the headline consumer price index, and about 40% of the core index.

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CBRE says prices are still 27.1% and 13.5% below the 2014 peak for apartments and villas respectively