House prices17,6 average annual % changein 2025source · Eurostat
2024:9,1European Union:5,5outside the Commission’s reference value (above 9 %)
What this number is
How much have the transaction prices of homes purchased by households changed in a year?
The reference value is the one of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure scoreboard, set in the regulation that created the Procedure and revised by the European Commission.
Housing cost overburden6,3 % of the populationin 2025source · Eurostat
2024:6,9European Union:7,7
This total mixes very different situations, and the European Commission says it should be read together with the breakdown by tenure status.
What this number is
What share of people, whether their home is owned with or without a mortgage or rented at market price or at a reduced rent or free (all tenure statuses), are in households where total housing costs, after deducting housing allowances, take more than 40 % of what the household receives from work, investment and social benefits, after paying taxes and social contributions (disposable income), also after deducting housing allowances?
Housing cost overburden, tenants at market rent27,2 % of tenants at market rentin 2025source · Eurostat
2024:30,3European Union:18,6
What this number is
What share of tenants at market rent are in households where total housing costs, after deducting housing allowances, take more than 40 % of what the household receives from work, investment and social benefits, after paying taxes and social contributions (disposable income), also after deducting housing allowances?