Belgium

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Belgium Compared to Continent

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Albania	11.51%
Austria	3.52%
Belarus	12.42%
Belgium	4.94%
Bosnia & H.	32.31%
Bulgaria	10.38%
Croatia	2.49%
Cyprus	-2.75%
Czech Rep.	1.56%
Denmark	8.24%
Estonia	0.05%
Finland	1.54%
France	10.46%
Germany	2.03%
Greece	2.11%
Hungary	6.67%
Iceland	4.10%
Ireland	1.76%
Italy	-2.85%
Latvia	3.56%
Lithuania	1.65%
Luxembourg	-5.93%
Macedonia	1.72%
Malta	8.03%
Moldova	-2.65%
Netherlands	2.94%
Norway	2.60%
Poland	-3.77%
Portugal	-0.99%
Romania	21.55%
Russia	-1.79%
Slovak Rep.	16.54%
Slovenia	4.93%
Spain	1.27%
Sweden	0.53%
Switzerland	0.91%
Turkey	17.08%
UK	2.67%
Ukraine	-0.04%

 

 

Belgium: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a countrys score on the Heritage Foundations freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

 

Belgium generates house price and rents statistics of acceptable quality. Statistics Belgium has an annual residential property price index for flats, and also average selling prices. The National Bank of Belgium’s Belgostat has rentals, under “consumer price indices”, as well as all the usual general economics statistics.