House prices up by 4.7% in the euro area
Overview
In the first quarter of 2026, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, increased by 4.7% in the euro area and by 5.1% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 5.1% and 5.4% in the euro area and EU, respectively. These figures come from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Compared with the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.0% in the euro area and by 1.2% in the EU in the first quarter of 2026.
House price developments in the EU Member States
Among the Member States for which data are available, one country showed an annual decrease in house prices in the first quarter of 2026, and twenty-five showed an annual increase. The fall was registered in Finland (-2.0%), while the highest increases were recorded in Portugal (+17.8%), Bulgaria (+14.8%) and Slovakia (+14.4%).
Compared with the previous quarter, prices decreased in four Member States, and increased in twenty-two Member States. The falls were registered in Belgium, Finland (both -0.8%), France (-0.6%) and Hungary (-0.5%), while the highest increases were recorded in Bulgaria (+6.2%), Portugal (+3.8%) and Slovakia (+3.6%).
Table
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Quarterly and annual changes in house prices |
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Change compared with the previous quarter, % |
Change compared with the same quarter of the previous year, % |
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2026 |
2025 |
2026 |
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Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
Q1 |
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Euro area 21 |
1.7 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 4.7 |
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Euro area 20 |
1.6 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 4.6 |
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EU |
1.6 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.1 |
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Belgium |
-0.1 | 2.4 | 0.5 | -0.8 | 2.9 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 2.0 |
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Bulgaria |
3.8 | 3.8 | 0.3 | 6.2 | 15.5 | 15.4 | 12.6 | 14.8 |
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Czechia |
3.1 | 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 10.3 | 10.0 |
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Denmark |
1.7 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 7.3 | 6.3 | 7.6 | 8.3 |
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Germany |
0.9 | 0.7 | -0.5 | 0.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.4 |
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Estonia |
3.6 | -0.8 | -0.3 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.9 |
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Ireland |
1.3 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 6.8 |
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Greece |
: | : | : | : | : | : | : | : |
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Spain |
4.0 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 12.9 | 12.8 |
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France |
0.0 | 1.5 | -0.8 | -0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 |
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Croatia |
4.1 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 12.8 | 13.3 | 15.9 | 14.3 |
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Italy |
2.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.2 |
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Cyprus |
-1.8 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 3.4 |
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Latvia |
3.0 | 4.8 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 6.5 | 7.9 | 10.5 | 10.9 |
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Lithuania |
2.8 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 8.8 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 11.9 |
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Luxembourg |
4.7 | -3.6 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 4.6 | 1.0 | -0.1 | 1.7 |
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Hungary |
1.6 | 6.0 | 3.8 | -0.5 | 15.5 | 21.1 | 20.8 | 11.2 |
| 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 6.3 | 6.7 | |
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Netherlands |
1.5 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 9.5 | 7.9 | 6.2 | 5.2 |
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Austria |
1.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
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Poland |
1.1 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 5.9 |
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Portugal |
4.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 17.2 | 17.7 | 18.9 | 17.8 |
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Romania |
0.4 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 4.7 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 7.8 |
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Slovenia |
3.1 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 8.2 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 9.3 |
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Slovakia |
2.2 | 4.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 11.3 | 13.4 | 12.8 | 14.4 |
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Finland |
1.0 | -1.5 | -0.7 | -0.8 | -1.6 | -2.7 | -2.6 | -2.0 |
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Sweden |
-0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 2.6 |
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Iceland |
1.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | -0.2 | 6.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 2.8 |
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Norway |
2.1 | -0.5 | -0.6 | 3.7 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 4.6 |
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Switzerland |
1.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 |
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: not available Source datasets: prc_hpi_q (compared with the previous quarter) and prc_hpi_q (compared with the same quarter of the previous year)
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Notes for users
Revisions and timetable
Compared with Euro indicators release of 7 April 2026, revisions for the euro area and the EU are highlighted in bold in the table below:
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Revisions |
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Q2 2025 |
Q3 2025 |
Q4 2025 |
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Quarterly changes
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Previous |
Current |
Previous |
Current |
Previous |
Current |
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Euro area 21 |
1.7 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
0.5 |
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Euro area 20 |
1.7 |
1.6 |
1.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
0.5 |
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EU |
1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.8 |
0.7 |
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Annual changes
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Euro area 21 |
5.3 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.2 |
5.1 |
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Euro area 20 |
5.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.1 |
5.0 |
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EU |
5.4 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
5.5 |
5.5 |
5.4 |
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The next release with data (second quarter of 2026) is scheduled for 1 October 2026.
Methods and definitions
The House Price Index (HPI) measures the price changes of all residential properties purchased by households (flats, detached houses, terraced houses, etc.), both newly built and existing, independently of their final use and independently of their previous owners. The Member States’ HPIs are compiled by the National Statistical Institutes. The euro area and the EU aggregate HPIs are compiled by Eurostat. HPIs are computed as annually chained indices with weights being updated each year. The European HPI aggregates are currently calculated as weighted averages of the national HPIs using as weights the GDP at market prices (expressed in millions Purchasing Power Standards - PPS) of the countries concerned.
The figures are not seasonally adjusted.
Missing country data is estimated by Eurostat using data from non-harmonised sources. These estimates are not published but are used to calculate euro area and EU aggregates.
Geographical information
Up to 31 December 2025, the euro area included Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland (EA20). From 1 January 2026, the euro area also includes Bulgaria (EA21).
The aggregate data series commented on in this Euro indicator release refer to the official composition of the euro area in the most recent quarter for which data are available. Thus, Euro indicator releases with data up to the fourth quarter of 2025 comment on EA20 series, while releases with data for the first quarter of 2026 onwards comment on EA21 series.
The European Union includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden (EU27) .
