Compared with the first quarter of 2026, house prices increased by 1.2% and rents by 0.7%. Compared with the 2025 annual average, house prices rose by 4.1% and rents by 2.6%. At national level, house prices rose faster than rents in all 18 EU countries with available data. The largest increases in house prices were recorded in Bulgaria (+14.3%), Portugal (+14.2%) and Lithuania (+12.8%), while Finland (-1.5%) and France (-1.4%) were the only countries where prices fell. Rents increased in all EU countries, with the highest rises in Romania (+41.2%), Croatia (+22.1%) and Slovenia (+10.2%), and the lowest in Estonia and Finland (+0.1% each) and Luxembourg (+1.2%). More housing indicators are available in the Eurostat Housing Dashboard. 

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