Europe: Price/Rent Ratio - Rent Years to Buy 120 Sq.M. Property

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Malta	35 yrs
Liechtenstein	30 yrs
Italy	28 yrs
Spain	27 yrs
France	25 yrs
Lithuania	25 yrs
UK	24 yrs
Norway	24 yrs
Luxembourg	23 yrs
Cyprus	23 yrs
Austria	23 yrs
Denmark	22 yrs
Russia	22 yrs
Switzerland	21 yrs
Germany	21 yrs
Belgium	20 yrs
Latvia	20 yrs
Finland	20 yrs
Czech Rep.	20 yrs
Romania	18 yrs
Portugal	17 yrs
Bulgaria	17 yrs
Poland	17 yrs
Sweden	17 yrs
Estonia	16 yrs
Andorra	16 yrs
Turkey	15 yrs
Netherlands	15 yrs
Slovenia	15 yrs
Macedonia	14 yrs
Hungary	12 yrs
Ukraine	11 yrs
Slovak Rep.	10 yrs
Moldova	7 yrs

Europe: Price/rent ratio

This ratio is typically used for measuring undervaluation/overvaluation of real estate prices, calculated by dividing the gross rental yield by 100 – so the higher the yield, the lower the price/rent ratio.

When wereas theise data collected? Click on individual countries to see the data collection date.

European statistics. European house price and other economic statistics vary in quality. It is often a surprise to non-Europeans to discover that swathes of this rich, highly developed continent are not covered by good housing statistics.

Northern European countries have generally good house price time-series. In particular, all the Scandinavian countries generate excellent house price statistics. In the Baltics the situation is improving rapidly. Latvia generates an official annual house price time-series, and the realtor Latio publishes a monthly index. Lithuania has no official house price or rents time-series, but the firm Inreal publishes annual prices and rents for Vilnius for a few years. Estonia has high-quality housing statistics, generated by the Statistical Office of Estonia (SOE). Data on house prices, house sales and construction activities, as well as general economics statistics are all available from the SOE.

Central Europe is mixed. German house price statistics are weak. France has very good statistics, the Netherlands has good data, Belgium and Austria have acceptable data. Spain has made giant strides, Portugal is weaker.

Southern Europe tends to have weak statistical data. There is a particular lack of housing statistics in Italy, Greece, and Turkey (though Italy has some private, for-sale, data generators).

Statistics in Eastern Europe are weak. Efforts are being made to change this, for instance Bulgaria began publishing a house price time-series in 2006. Aside from this, the Czech Republic has an official index, and in Poland, REAS Konsulting produces a for-sale index.