House prices and rents continued to rise in Q1 2026

In the first quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU rose by 5.1%, while rents increased by 3.0% compared with the first quarter of 2025.

Compared with the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.2% and rents by 0.7%.

Between 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, house prices in the EU increased by 2.9% and rents by 1.8%.

This information comes from data on house prices and rents published by Eurostat today. 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

As regards national data, when comparing the first quarter of 2026 with the annual average for 2025, house prices rose more than rents in 19 EU countries with available data. Over this period, the largest increases in house prices were recorded in Portugal (+10.3%), Bulgaria (+9.4%) and Slovakia (+9.1%). France (-0.5%) and Finland (-1.8%) were the only countries where house prices fell.

During the same period, rents increased in all EU countries, except Slovenia, where they fell by 0.9%, and Finland, where they remained unchanged. Among the other EU countries, the highest rise was registered in Croatia (+21.9%), followed by Bulgaria (+6.4%) and Greece (+5.0%).

Source datasets: prc_hpi_a, prc_hpi_q, prc_hicp_ainr and prc_hicp_minr