In the EU in the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices have increased by 5.5%, while rents have risen by 3.2% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. Compared with the third quarter of 2025, house prices have increased by 0.8% and rents by 0.6%. Such information comes from the house price and rent figures that have been published by Eurostat earlier today. “in the late decade, from 2015 until the fourth quarter of 2025, in the EU, rents increased by 21.8% and house prices by 64.9%”, the EU Statistics Bureau points out. “As regards to national data, when comparing the fourth quarter of 2025 with 2015, house prices increased more than rents in 25 out of the 26 EU countries for which data are available. Over this period, house prices more than tripled in Hungary (+290%) and have more than doubled in 12 countries with the largest increases seen in Portugal (+180%), Lithuania (+168%), and Bulgaria (+157%%). Finland was the only country where house prices decreased during this period (-3%)”. During the same period, rents increased in all the 27 EU countries, with the highest rise registered in Hungary (+109%), followed by Lithuania (+88%) and Ireland and Poland (both +76%)). In Italy, house prices and rents turned out to be more moderate than the EU average.