
BRUSSELS – Eurostat has published data indicating that residential property prices and rents in the European Union continued to rise in the first quarter of 2025. Property prices increased by 5.7 percent year-on-year compared to 2024, while rents rose by 3.2 percent.
On a quarterly basis, house prices went up by 1.4 percent and rents by 0.9 percent, reflecting a stable growth trend in the EU’s real estate market. Since 2010, property prices in the European Union have surged a total of 57.9 percent, with rents experiencing a 27.8 percent increase. However, the growth patterns have varied; rents have seen consistent, gradual increases, whereas housing prices have faced significant fluctuations, with a strong rise from 2015 to 2022, followed by a short stagnation, and then a renewed upward movement starting in 2024. Hungary and Estonia recorded the highest increases in residential property prices from 2010 to 2025, with increases of 260 percent and 238 percent respectively, while prices have more than doubled in another nine countries, including Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Bulgaria, Austria, Luxembourg, Poland, and Slovakia.
Notably, Italy stands out as the only country where residential property prices have decreased during this time, by four percent, as per Eurostat. In terms of rental prices, significant increases have been observed in Estonia (220 percent), Lithuania (184 percent), Hungary (124 percent), and Ireland (115 percent). Conversely, Greece is the sole EU member state to experience a decline in rental prices since 2010, with an 11 percent decrease. (July 4)













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