Several other key issues are linked to technological and market developments, such as the explosion of e-commerce, the increasing numbers 2  The rental equivalence approach matches up the characteristics of the owner-occupied housing stock with equivalent rental properties and calculates what it would cost, at current rental prices, to rent the whole stock of owner-occupied housing.
The net acquisitions approach measures the costs associated with the household sector acquiring new residential housing. Implementations of this approach typically include all money spent on the net acquisitions of dwellings by the household sector including self-builds, spending on major renovations and repairs and the various service costs associated with acquiring new homes.