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Turkey 121.92%
Portugal 98.18%
Iceland 97.69%
Ireland 90.53%
Estonia 79.28%
Luxembourg 73.64%
Czech Rep. 71.57%
Slovak Rep. 62.24%
Germany 59.31%
Malta 57.96%
Netherlands 48.58%
Sweden 47.69%
Lithuania 32.21%
Slovenia 31.73%
Austria 30.18%
Bulgaria 29.61%
Croatia 26.77%
UK 26.51%
Romania 24.16%
Poland 20.11%
Macedonia 17.24%
Denmark 17.20%
Norway 16.22%
Belgium 15.85%
France 10.62%
Latvia 8.26%
Switzerland 5.06%
Albania 0.00%
Moldova 0.00%
Bosnia & H. 0.00%
Belarus 0.00%
Andorra 0.00%
Hungary 0.00%
Monaco 0.00%
Liechtenstein 0.00%
Serbia 0.00%
Finland -1.59%
Greece -1.61%
Spain -3.19%
Montenegro -7.18%
Russia -15.00%
Cyprus -15.34%
Italy -36.65%
Ukraine -54.42%

Europe: Price changes, 10 years (%)

The percentage changes in house prices (or the house price index) over 10 years using the latest data available, not adjusted for inflation.


Source: Various sources

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.