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EU house-price-to-income ratio rose 6.8% from 2015 to 2025

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10 Nov 2026, 11:21 am IST1 min read

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House prices in the European Union rose faster than household income over the decade to 2025. Eurostat reported on November 9 that the EU’s house-price-to-income ratio was 6.8% higher in 2025 than in 2015. The ratio rose in 17 member countries and fell in 10.

Portugal posted the largest increase, at 60.8%, while Romania posted the largest decline, at 42.8%. The index compares changes in house prices with changes in per-person household disposable income within each country. Those figures track how the two moved over time. They do not rank countries by how much of a household’s income it takes to buy a home.

Source: Eurostat, ‘Are EU house prices outpacing income?’ © European Union, 2026, CC BY 4.0. KROV wrote this account and prepared the Telugu edition and is responsible for both. The English original from Eurostat prevails.

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