Brussels, Oct. 3, 2025 (Lusa) - House prices more than doubled (141%) in Portugal between 2010 and 2025, rising 17.2% in the second quarter of this year, according to data released on Friday by Eurostat.

In a bulletin released today, the European statistical service indicates that house prices between 2010 and 2025 more than tripled in Hungary (277%) and Estonia (250%).

House prices doubled or more than doubled in ten countries in the bloc: Lithuania (202%), Latvia (162%), the Czech Republic (155%), Portugal (141%), Bulgaria (133%), Austria (117%), Luxembourg (112%), Slovakia (105%), Poland (104%) and Croatia (102%), with Italy showing the only decline (-1%).

Eurostat also reports that, on the other hand, house rents in the European Union (EU) rose by 3.2% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, and by 0.7% compared to the first three months of the year.

Compared to 2010, house prices rose more than rents in 21 of the 26 EU countries for which data is available.

During the same period, rental prices rose in 26 EU countries, with the largest increases recorded in Estonia (218%), Lithuania (192%), Hungary (125%) and Ireland (117%), with Greece being the only country where rental prices fell (-9%).

In 2024, Hungary (12.4%) was the country where year-on-year rents rose the most, followed by Romania (11.1%) and Malta (8.9%), with Portugal in fifth place (7.0%).

Between 2010 and the second quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 60.5% and rents by 28.8%.

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