Home prices up again: what October’s 0.7% increase means for buyers and sellers

Since January 2010, the average real (CPI inflation-adjusted) national house price has cumulatively declined over almost 16 years. The October 2025 real (CPI inflation-adjusted) house price index was still -1.4% below the level of January 2010. The annual national residential property price inflation was 6.8% in October last year, an increase from 6.3% in September 2025.

The residential property price index (RPPI) increased by 0.7% month-on-month in October 2025. This is according to the Residential Property Price Index Report published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Thursday. TheResidential Property Price Indices (RPPIs) measure the changes in the price of residential properties.

StatsSA October House Price Index continued to point to accelerating growth late in 2025, with a mildly more conducive environment for new home building, says John Loos, an independent economist. Reacting to the data, Loos says the highlights for the StatsSA October 2025 House Price Index are: According to Loos, Thursday’s StatsSA’s House Price Indices for October 2025 showed afurther acceleration in national average year-on-year house price growth in October 2025, to a rate of 6.8%, from the previous quarter’s 6.3%.