Ongoing rise: house prices and rents climb further

In the second quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 5.4% while rents increased by 3.2%, compared with the same quarter of 2024.

Relative to the first quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.6% and rents by 0.7%.

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

Between 2010 and the second quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU increased by 60.5% and rents by 28.8%. While rents have increased steadily, house prices have followed a more varied pattern, showing a staggering increase between the first quarter of 2015 and the third quarter of 2022, followed by a small drop and stabilization, before starting to increase again in 2024. House prices have been increasing for 6 quarters in a row.

Source datasets: prc_hpi_q and prc_hicp_midx

When comparing the second quarter of 2025 with 2010, house prices increased more than rents in 21 of the 26 EU countries for which data are available. House prices more than tripled in Hungary (+277%) and Estonia (+250%) and doubled or more than doubled in 10 EU countries: Lithuania (+202%), Latvia (+162%), Czechia (+155%), Portugal (+141%), Bulgaria (+133%), Austria (+117%), Luxembourg (+112%), Slovakia (+105%), Poland (+104%) and Croatia (+102%). Italy was the only country where house prices decreased (-1%).

During the same period, rents increased in 26 EU countries, with the highest rises registered in Estonia (+218%), Lithuania (+192%), Hungary (+125%) and Ireland (+117%). Greece was the only country where rent prices decreased (-9%).

Source datasets: prc_hpi_a, prc_hpi_q, prc_hicp_aind, prc_hicp_midx