EIU City Data has office (through 2012) & residential rent prices (1990-2024) for major cities around the world. Ceased.
CEIC has real estate indexes for many countries, sometimes subnationally. It is particularly rich on the USA (see Housing Prices - USA below).
Global Financial Data has real estate indices and prices for many countries. Choose “Real Estate Market Data” under Data Series Type in the Filter Search and then select the desired country or region.
Global Property Guide has international residential property research.
RICS Surveys offers information on the international markets.
Bank for International Settlement's Property Price Statistics is useful for comparisons. Also available in the economics module of Datastream.
For a comprehensive look at sources of housing price data for 14 advanced economies from 1870-2012, see the American Economic Review article and dataset by Katharina Knoll, Moritz Schularick, & Thomas Steger: "No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012".
For Europe, also see Eurostat's Housing Price Indices.
For China, the China Statistical Yearbook (Contained in China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CNKI)) has regional price indices for housing. Additional more detailed statistics can be found in the China real estate statistical yearbook.
Bloomberg (available Firestone - A Floor) has monthly housing price indexes by city for China for 2006-2010. Use the command ALLX CNHP. For post-2010 indexes see ALLX CNHH, ALLX CNHS, ALLX CNHC, ALLX CNHM, ALLX CNHN. Available on the workstations located near Firestone A-13-J, Robertson 046, Andlinger 211A, Master of Finance lounge in JRR, and Sherrerd lower level.
LONRES. Data on all property listings in London, England (United Kingdom). Includes detailed and comprehensive property characteristics (e.g. number of bedrooms/bathrooms, floor area, floor level, access to a garden, parking, elevator access, rent payments for communal flat buildings, etc.). Data goes back to the 1970s and was acquired in June 2023.
House Price per Square Metre in England and Wales, 1995-2022
New attribute-linked residential property price dataset for England and Wales 2011-2019