Brussels: House prices were up across the EU, marginally so in Cyprus, in the third quarter of 2025, according to data released on Friday by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat). Specifically, house prices in the EU rose by 5.5%, while rents increased by 3.1%, compared with the third quarter of 2024. Compared with the second quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 1.6% and rents by 0.9%.
According to Cyprus News Agency, in Cyprus, house prices recorded a marginal increase of 0.1% compared with the last quarter of 2024, while they declined by 0.3% compared with the second quarter of 2025. When comparing the third quarter of 2025 with the corresponding quarter of 2015, house prices in Cyprus increased by 46.86%.
National data published by Eurostat indicated that house prices increased more than rents in 25 EU Member States when comparing the third quarter of 2025 with the same period in 2015. Over this period, house prices more than tripled in Hungary (+275%) and more than doubled in 11 countries, with the largest increases recorded in Portugal (+169%), Lithuania (+162%), and Bulgaria (+156%). Finland was the only country where house prices declined over the same period (-2%).
As regards rents, they increased in all 27 EU Member States during the same period, with the highest rise recorded in Hungary (+107%), followed by Lithuania (+85%), Slovenia (+76%), Poland (+75%), and Ireland (+74%). At the same time, rents across the EU increased by 3.1% in the third quarter of 2025 compared with the corresponding quarter of 2024, and by 0.9% compared with the second quarter of 2025.