Paris historical repeat-rent index

The Paris historical rent data is a set of long-run rent series for Paris compiled from French notarial and archival sources by Piet Eichholtz, Matthijs Korevaar and Thies Lindenthal. Two distinct products exist, and they differ sharply in how available they are. The published total-return work includes a Paris rent and price series for 1809 to 1943, posted openly. A separate, much deeper repeat-rent index covering 1500 to 1831 is used in some studies but remains a working paper with no public replication file. Used in, for example, Francke (2025), which draws on the Paris 1500-1831 repeat-rent series (new rental contracts only).

• Cost: free, no account, no key (the published slice is an Excel file).
• Publicly available: the Paris 1809-1943 series, inside the shared RFS 2021 Amsterdam-and-Paris workbook.
• Not publicly available: the Paris 1500-1831 repeat-rent index, which is working-paper-only as of this writing.
• Data page: Matthijs Korevaar, https://sites.google.com/view/matthijskorevaar/data

Access

The only Paris rent data that downloads here is the 1809-1943 slice, which ships in the same Google Drive workbook as the Amsterdam total-return series (see the Amsterdam housing page).

# RFS 2021 headline series .xlsx (Amsterdam 1900-1979 + Paris 1809-1943);
# 29,096-byte .xlsx, sheets "Sources" and "Headline Series":
curl -sL "https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1u-cYs7TiB6-rEhcDqCiGkfXsHdP9mWx1&export=download" -o rfs2021_headline.xlsx

The deep 1500-1831 Paris repeat-rent index is described in the working paper “The Housing Affordability Revolution” (predecessor “500 Years of Housing Rents, Quality and Affordability,” SSRN 3418495); no replication package is posted, so it cannot be fetched here.

Gotchas (the ones that bite pipelines)

• The long 1500-1831 index is not public. The series several studies cite (including the one above) is from a working paper with no replication file posted. Do not promise a downloadable 1500-1831 Paris panel: it does not exist publicly yet.
• Only the 1809-1943 slice is fetchable. That is what the green-versus-teal grade reflects: the endpoint and the published slice are reachable, but the specific long series the citing work used was not exercised here.
• Shared workbook with Amsterdam. The published Paris and Amsterdam series ship in one Excel file, so cite the same Drive file and mind the link-rot / no-DOI caveats noted on the Amsterdam page.
• New-contract rents, not sitting-tenant rents. The Paris series is built from new rental contracts; these move differently from the rent paid by sitting tenants, so do not read it as a tenant cost-of-living series without adjustment.
• Compiled from archival sources. Like Amsterdam, the raw French notarial and archival records are a separate, harder source; the machine-readable value is the compiled series, where one exists.

Reference

Field	Value
Data page	sites.google.com/view/matthijskorevaar/data
Public series	Paris 1809-1943, in the RFS 2021 headline .xlsx (Drive id 1u-cYs...mWx1)
Not public	Paris 1500-1831 repeat-rent index (working paper, SSRN 3418495)
Raw source	French notarial and archival records, separate
Format	Multi-sheet Excel (Sources + Headline Series)
Key required	No

Citation

For the published series, cite Eichholtz, Korevaar, Lindenthal & Tallec (2021), “The Total Return and Risk to Residential Real Estate,” Review of Financial Studies 34(8), 3608-3646, with the Drive file id and retrieval date. For the 1500-1831 series, cite the working paper (Eichholtz, Korevaar & Lindenthal, “The Housing Affordability Revolution,” SSRN 3418495) and note that it is not yet publicly released.