In the third quarter of 2025, house prices in the European Union increased by 5.5 percent, while rents increased by 3.1 percent, compared to the third quarter of 2024.
Compared to the second quarter of 2025, house prices rose by 1.6 percent and rents by 0.9 percent, according to data published by Eurostat.
House prices and rents in the EU followed a similar trend between 2010 and the second quarter of 2011, but have developed differently since then. While rents have risen gradually, house prices have followed a changing pattern, combining periods of decline, stagnation and rapid growth.
Over the last decade, between 2015 and the third quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 63.6 percent and rents by 21.1 percent.
As for national data, comparing the third quarter of 2025 with 2015, house prices rose more than rents in the 25 EU countries for which data is available, reports Fena.
During that period, house prices nearly tripled in Hungary (+275 percent) and nearly doubled in 11 countries, with the biggest increases in Portugal (+169 percent), Lithuania (+162 percent) and Bulgaria (+156 percent). Finland was the only country where house prices fell (-2 percent).
In the same period, rents increased in all 27 EU countries, with the highest growth in Hungary (+107 percent), followed by Lithuania (+85 percent), Slovenia (+76 percent), Poland (+75 percent) and Ireland (+74 percent).
