According to data published this Friday by Eurostat, Portugal (+17.2%), Bulgaria (+15.5%), and Hungary (+15.1%) were the three member states that saw the largest increase compared to the same period last year.

Compared to the first three months of the year, Portugal once again occupies the top position in terms of house price growth, with a 4.7% increase, which led the government to approve a comprehensive plan for this sector in recent weeks. In the quarter-on-quarter comparison, Luxembourg (+4.5%) and Croatia (+4.4%) followed.

Author: Eurostat;

In aggregate terms, the house price index rose 5.4% in the European Union and 5.1% in the Eurozone between April and June, compared to the same three months of the previous year. Even so, the European statistics office shows that this indicator slowed compared to its growth in the first quarter of the year (5.7% and 5.3%, respectively).