Portugal recording the largest increase, 17.2%. Year-on-year, the indicator grew 1.6% and 1.7%, respectively. Between 2010 and 2025, house prices more than doubled (141%) in the country.
Among the Member States, Finland was the only country that recorded an annual decrease in house prices in the second quarter of 2025 (-1.3%), with Portugal (17.2%) showing the largest increase, followed by Bulgaria (15.5%) and Hungary (15.1%).
Also compared to the first three months of the year, the largest increase in house prices was recorded in Portugal (4.7%), followed by Luxembourg (4.5%) and Croatia (4.4%).
In another report, the European Statistical Office also indicates that house prices more than tripled between 2010 and 2025 in Hungary (277%) and Estonia (250%).
House prices doubled or more than doubled in ten EU countries: Lithuania (202%), Latvia (162%), the Czech Republic (155%), Portugal (141%), Bulgaria (133%), Austria (117%), Luxembourg (112%), Slovakia (105%), Poland (104%), and Croatia (102%), with Italy showing the only decline (-1%).
Eurostat also reports that, on the other hand, housing rents in the European Union (EU) increased by 3.2% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, and by 0.7% compared to the first three months of the year.
Compared to 2010, housing prices increased more than rents in 21 of the 26 EU countries for which data are available.
During the same period, rent prices rose in 26 EU countries, with the largest increases recorded in Estonia (218%), Lithuania (192%), Hungary (125%), and Ireland (117%), with Greece being the only country where rent prices decreased (-9%).
In 2024, Hungary (12.4%) was the country where annual rents increased the most, followed by Romania (11.1%) and Malta (8.9%), with Portugal in fifth place in the table (7.0%).
Between 2010 and the second quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU increased by 60.5% and rent prices by 28.8%.













It would benefit all your readers if you provided some sort of capstone or summary to all of this. There's a world of difference between "data" and "information". Information provides insights and conclusions more interesting and perhaps more actionable. Presenting numbers, trends and data without a summary makes it hard to answer the question "so what". I liked this article just had a hard time deciphering the key takeaways beyond reading the article's title.
By Frank from Porto on 06 Oct 2025, 20:53
before couple of years they insisted that the cause of increasing the GV investors, today what is their excuse???? try to find a good cause this time.
By Tarik from Lisbon on 07 Oct 2025, 15:38