In the first quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 5.7%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the same quarter of 2024 according to eurostat.

When compared with the Q4 2024 house prices increased by 1.4% and rents by 0.9%. Between 2010 and Q1 2025, house prices in the EU increased by 57.9% and rents by 27.8%.

When comparing the Q1 2025 with 2010, house prices increased more than rents in 21 of the 26 EU countries for which data are available. Over the same period, house prices more than tripled in Hungary (+260%) and Estonia (+238%) and doubled or more than doubled in 9 EU countries: Lithuania (+194%), Latvia (+154%), Czechia (+147%), Portugal (+130%), Bulgaria (+125%), Austria (+113%), Luxembourg and Poland (both +102%) and Slovakia (+100%). Italy was the only country where house prices decreased (-4%).   

During the same period, rents increased in 26 EU countries, with the highest rises registered in Estonia (+220%), Lithuania (+184%), Hungary (+124%) and Ireland (+115%). Greece was the only country where rent prices decreased (-11%).