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In the third quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU went up by 5.5%, while rents increased by 3.1%, compared with the third quarter of 2024.

Compared with the second quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.6% and rents by 0.9%. 

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.

House prices and rents in the EU followed a similar behaviour between 2010 and the second quarter of 2011 but have since evolved differently. While rents have increased steadily, house prices have followed a more variable pattern, combining periods of decline, stagnation and rapid increases. During the last decade, between 2015 and the third quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU increased by 63.6% and rents by 21.1%.

Source datasets: prc_hpi_q and prc_hicp_midx

As regards national data, when comparing the third 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 (+275%) and have more than doubled in 11 countries, with the largest increases seen in Portugal (+169%), Lithuania (+162%) and Bulgaria (+156%). Finland was the only country where house prices decreased during this period (-2%).   

During the same period, rents increased in all the 27 EU countries, with the highest rise registered in Hungary (+107%), followed by Lithuania (+85%), Slovenia (+76%), Poland (+75%) and Ireland (+74%).

Source datasets: prc_hpi_a, prc_hpi_q, prc_hicp_aind, prc_hicp_midx