Luxembourg: House price to income ratio

The house price to income ratio is the ratio of the cost of a typical upscale housing unit of 100 square metres, compared to the countrys GDP per capita. Normally this ratio will be much higher in low income countries than in high income countries.

The formula is: (Price per square metre / GDP per capita)*100. The house price to income ratios published by the Global Property Guide are based on the Global Property Guides own proprietary in-house research, but we use the IMFs GDP per capita figures.

Luxembourg publishes an apartment price time-series, with square metre prices for new and existing one family houses, apartments and apartment houses, since 1985, based on National Statistical Institute data, and available on-line from the Service Central de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques du Luxembourg (Statec). General economic statistics can be got from the Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, and from Statec.