House prices and rents continued to rise in Q2 2026

In the second quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU rose by 4.7%, while rents increased by 3.0% compared with the second quarter of 2025.

Compared with the first quarter of 2026, house prices increased by 1.2% and rents by 0.7%.

Between 2025 and the second quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU increased by 4.1% and rents by 2.6%.

This information comes from data on house prices and rents published by Eurostat. This article presents the main findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on housing price statistics.

Source datasets: prc_hpi_q and prc_hicp_minr

At national level, when comparing the second quarter of 2026 with the annual average for 2025, house prices rose faster than rents in the 18 EU countries with available data. Over this period, the largest increases in house prices were recorded in Bulgaria (+14.3%), Portugal (+14.2%) and Lithuania (+12.8%). Finland (-1.5%) and France (-1.4%) were the only countries where house prices fell.

During the same period, rents increased in all EU countries. The highest rises were registered in Romania (+41.2%), Croatia (+22.1%) and Slovenia (+10.2%), while the lowest were in Estonia and Finland (+0.1% each), and Luxembourg (+1.2%).

Source datasets: prc_hpi_a, prc_hpi_q, prc_hicp_ainr and prc_hicp_minr