The ECB is likely as part of the strategic review to place more emphasis on housing costs and may initiate the creation of a parallel price index that includes them, but it will not change the inflation measure that it targets. Greater consideration of house prices would not normally make much difference to the Bank’s policy stance, but may on occasion influence decision-making.
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