{
 "module": "rent",
 "contract": 1,
 "generated": "2026-10-18T00:40:01Z",
 "site": "Baltic Basket",
 "kind": "index",
 "status": "ok",
 "geo_level": "national",
 "cadence": "monthly",
 "data_date": "2026-09-30",
 "lag_days": 18,
 "lag_expected_days": 35,
 "module_updated": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
 "coverage": {
  "LV": "ok",
  "LT": "ok",
  "EE": "ok"
 },
 "countries": {
  "LV": {
   "coverage": "ok",
   "value": 1.1,
   "as_of": "2026-09-30",
   "label_key": "rent.headline.annual_change",
   "label": "Rents vs a year ago",
   "value_kind": "percent_change_annual",
   "period_label": "2026-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "id": "estat_hicp_minr",
     "name": "Eurostat HICP monthly (prc_hicp_minr, CP041 actual rentals for housing)",
     "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_minr/default/table",
     "class": "A",
     "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
     "upstream_published": "2026-10-16",
     "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)"
    }
   ],
   "sources_evidence": "series_meta.by_country.LV.source_id"
  },
  "LT": {
   "coverage": "ok",
   "value": 10.0,
   "as_of": "2026-09-30",
   "label_key": "rent.headline.annual_change",
   "label": "Rents vs a year ago",
   "value_kind": "percent_change_annual",
   "period_label": "2026-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "id": "estat_hicp_minr",
     "name": "Eurostat HICP monthly (prc_hicp_minr, CP041 actual rentals for housing)",
     "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_minr/default/table",
     "class": "A",
     "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
     "upstream_published": "2026-10-16",
     "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)"
    }
   ],
   "sources_evidence": "series_meta.by_country.LT.source_id"
  },
  "EE": {
   "coverage": "ok",
   "value": 4.2,
   "as_of": "2026-09-30",
   "label_key": "rent.headline.annual_change",
   "label": "Rents vs a year ago",
   "value_kind": "percent_change_annual",
   "period_label": "2026-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "id": "estat_hicp_minr",
     "name": "Eurostat HICP monthly (prc_hicp_minr, CP041 actual rentals for housing)",
     "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_minr/default/table",
     "class": "A",
     "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
     "upstream_published": "2026-10-16",
     "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)"
    }
   ],
   "sources_evidence": "series_meta.by_country.EE.source_id"
  }
 },
 "caveat_key": "rent.caveat.index_not_price",
 "caveat_en": "This is an index of change, not a price. There is no official euro-per-square-metre rent figure for Latvia or Estonia.",
 "method_url": "https://www.balticbasket.eu/method/rent/",
 "sources": [
  {
   "id": "estat_hicp_minr",
   "name": "Eurostat HICP monthly (prc_hicp_minr, CP041 actual rentals for housing)",
   "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_minr/default/table",
   "class": "A",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
   "upstream_published": "2026-10-16",
   "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)"
  },
  {
   "id": "estat_hpi_q",
   "name": "Eurostat House Price Index (prc_hpi_q) — PURCHASE, not rent",
   "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hpi_q/default/table",
   "class": "A",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
   "upstream_published": "2026-10-01",
   "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)"
  },
  {
   "id": "lt_osp_rent_levels",
   "name": "Statistics Lithuania S7R281_M9070366 — average rent, EUR/m2 per year, cities",
   "url": "https://osp-rs.stat.gov.lt/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?hash=S7R281_M9070366",
   "class": "A",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
   "upstream_published": null,
   "licence": "Statistics Lithuania open data"
  },
  {
   "id": "lv_csp_pci021m",
   "name": "Statistics Latvia PCI021m consumer price index, ECOICOP ver.2 04.1 (Actual rentals for housing), annual rate of change — INDEX, not a price, and the same office that compiles Latvia's HICP",
   "url": "https://data.stat.gov.lv/pxweb/en/OSP_PUB/OSP_PUB__VEK__PC__PCI/PCI021m/",
   "class": "A",
   "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
   "upstream_published": "2026-10-08",
   "licence": "CC0-1.0 (data.gov.lv mirror record 'osp', verified 2026-10-17)"
  }
 ],
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "attribution": "Baltic Basket",
 "licence_note": "This licence covers the Baltic Basket compilation. Each upstream source keeps its own terms; see sources[].licence.",
 "files": {
  "latest_json": "https://www.balticbasket.eu/data/rent-latest.json",
  "history_csv": [
   {
    "file": "https://www.balticbasket.eu/data/rent-history.csv",
    "columns": [
     {
      "name": "country",
      "desc": "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2"
     },
     {
      "name": "date",
      "desc": "the date the figure describes (never the day we fetched it)"
     },
     {
      "name": "period",
      "desc": "source's own period label where it has one (e.g. 2025-S2)"
     },
     {
      "name": "value_percent_change_annual",
      "desc": "the published value; an index has no unit and no currency"
     },
     {
      "name": "unit",
      "desc": "unit, empty for an index"
     },
     {
      "name": "value_kind",
      "desc": "percent_change_annual"
     },
     {
      "name": "includes_tax",
      "desc": "n/a (from index carries no tax basis)"
     },
     {
      "name": "aggregation",
      "desc": "none"
     },
     {
      "name": "point_basis",
      "desc": "monthly"
     },
     {
      "name": "coverage",
      "desc": "the module's own coverage flag for this country"
     },
     {
      "name": "gap_before",
      "desc": "1 = a declared gap ends immediately before this row; no row is ever interpolated"
     },
     {
      "name": "gap_note",
      "desc": "which gap, and why, when the source said why"
     },
     {
      "name": "source_id",
      "desc": "the source that produced THIS row, as the fragment names it; look it up in sources[] of this module's latest.json. Empty where the fragment names no source for the row — never guessed from the module's roster"
     }
    ],
    "unit": null,
    "includes_tax": "n/a",
    "tax_basis_evidence": "index carries no tax basis",
    "aggregation": "none",
    "point_basis": "monthly",
    "sources": [
     {
      "id": "estat_hicp_minr",
      "name": "Eurostat HICP monthly (prc_hicp_minr, CP041 actual rentals for housing)",
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_hicp_minr/default/table",
      "class": "A",
      "retrieved": "2026-10-17T05:46:01Z",
      "upstream_published": "2026-10-16",
      "licence": "CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)"
     }
    ],
    "sources_evidence": "EE from series_meta.by_country.EE.source_id; LT from series_meta.by_country.LT.source_id; LV from series_meta.by_country.LV.source_id",
    "declared_gaps": [
     {
      "country": "LT",
      "from": "1998-02-28",
      "to": "1999-03-31",
      "reason_key": null,
      "note": null
     },
     {
      "country": "LV",
      "from": "1997-07-31",
      "to": "1998-07-31",
      "reason_key": null,
      "note": null
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "unit": null,
 "index_base": "2015=100",
 "note_keys": [
  {
   "key": "rent.note.rate_not_level",
   "params": {}
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.dataset_migrated",
   "params": {}
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.hpi_is_buying",
   "params": {
    "quarter": "2026-Q2"
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.lt_levels_limits",
   "params": {
    "year": 2025,
    "months": 10
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.full_history",
   "params": {
    "first": "1997-01-31",
    "last": "2026-09-30",
    "n": 346
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.rate_starts_later",
   "params": {
    "periods": [
     [
      "1997-08",
      "1998-06"
     ]
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.lv_csp_same_office",
   "params": {
    "period": "2026-09",
    "csp": 1.1,
    "hicp": 1.1,
    "diff": 0.0
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.lv_csp_coverage_differs",
   "params": {}
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.lv_csp_identical_in_practice",
   "params": {
    "n": 309,
    "identical": 296,
    "share": 95.8,
    "step": 0.1
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.lv_csp_series_separate",
   "params": {
    "n": 309
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.lv_csp_licence_mirror_only",
   "params": {
    "licence": "CC0-1.0",
    "record": "osp"
   }
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.portals_excluded",
   "params": {}
  },
  {
   "key": "rent.note.values_rejected",
   "params": {
    "count": 26
   }
  }
 ],
 "notes": [
  "CP041 = actual rentals for housing; measures the rate of change of rents, not the level. No free official rent levels exist for LV or EE.",
  "prc_hicp_manr / prc_hicp_midx are discontinued (frozen at 2025-12); this module uses the live prc_hicp_minr with dimension coicop18.",
  "detail.house_prices is the Eurostat HOUSE PRICE index (buying a home), a separate quarterly series for 2026-Q2 — it is not rent.",
  "detail.lt_rent_levels: Lithuania only, EUR/m2 per YEAR, city level only, annual data for 2025 (10 months old), no national figure published.",
  "series: full monthly history 1997-01-31..2026-09-30 (346 points, LV basis); 2 gap(s) declared and never interpolated. The index itself (2015=100) runs from 1996 and is in detail.items[rent_index].",
  "the annual rate of change for 1997-08..1998-06 is published by the source but sits outside this module's plausibility band (up to +99% in 1998, when administered Soviet-era rents were being freed) and is therefore not in this series; the index for those months is published in full.",
  "detail.lv_csp_cross_check puts the headline next to Statistics Latvia's own PCI021m consumer price index (ECOICOP 04.1, annual rate): 2026-09 CSP +1.1% vs HICP +1.1%, +0.00 pp apart. This is NOT an independent source: Latvia's HICP is compiled and submitted by the same office. It is a differently constructed national CPI from the same statistical office — the same body, a second index.",
  "CPI and HICP differ in coverage by design (HICP follows the harmonised EU methodology, the national CPI does not), so a divergence between these two lines is expected, not an error.",
  "in practice the two lines are the same number for Latvian actual rentals: over 309 overlapping months (2001-01..2026-09) they agree to the published digit in 296 of them (95.8%), and the 13 that differ all differ by exactly 0.1 pp — the rounding step. Mean difference +0.001 pp, widest 2005-04 at +0.1 pp. This confirms that the figure survives the trip through Eurostat unchanged; it does not confirm that the figure is right, which would need a second measurement, and none exists for Latvia.",
  "the CSP series (309 monthly points, 2001-01-31..2026-09-30) is published separately in detail.lv_csp_cross_check.series with its own series_meta and source — it is never spliced into the Eurostat series.",
  "CSP licence: the office's own terms-of-use page could not be retrieved (every probed stat.gov.lv URL answers HTTP 200 with a 'page not found' body, and its sitemap lists no licensing page). What is verifiable is the data.gov.lv record 'osp' for the same publisher (Centrālā statistikas pārvalde), which declares CC0-1.0. That, and only that, is what this module claims.",
  "listing portals (SS.lv, City24, Aruodas, KV.ee) are deliberately excluded: asking prices on a self-selected sample are not signed rents.",
  "26 source values rejected by sanity range"
 ]
}