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House prices and rents went up in Q4 2025

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In the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 5.5%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.

Compared with the third quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 0.8% and rents by 0.6%. 

This information comes from data on house prices and rents published by Eurostat. This article presents the main findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on housing price statistics.

During the last decade, between 2015 and the third quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU increased by 64.9% and rents by 21.8%.

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Source datasets: prc_hpi_q and prc_hicp_midx

As regards national data, when comparing the fourth quarter of 2025 with 2015, house prices increased more than rents in 25 of the EU countries for which data are available. Over this period, house prices more than tripled in Hungary (+290%) and have more than doubled in 12 countries with the largest increases seen in Portugal (+180%), Lithuania (+168%), and Bulgaria (+157%). Finland was the only country where house prices decreased during this period (-3%).

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During the same period, rents increased in all the 27 EU countries, with the highest rise registered in Hungary (+109%), followed by Lithuania (+88%) and Ireland and Poland (both +76%).
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Source datasets: prc_hpi_a, prc_hpi_q, prc_hicp_aind, prc_hicp_midx

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Methodological notes 

  • Greece: transaction-based data for house prices not available. Bank of Greece data based on valuation prices used to estimate the European aggregates.
  • Switzerland: data for house prices available only from 2017 onwards. 

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