Resale Home Prices Up 19% Year-On-Year
- 5 Apr 2018 9:03 AM
- Budapest Business Journal
Average home prices per square meter have grown sharply both in Budapest and major cities in Hungary, according to 10,000 advertisements posted on real estate database ingatlan.com. The price growth is visible even compared to January of this year.
Resale houses and flats in Budapest cost on average HUF 541,000 per sqm in the last week of March, indicating a price growth of 19% year-on-year and 6% compared to January this year, according to ingatlan.com, cited by news portal index.hu.
The average price of apartments, as set in advertisements, was HUF 577,000 per sqm in Budapest, with a price growth of 20%, while house prices now stand at HUF 382,000 per sqm, following an increase of 12%.
The reason for the price growth is the decrease in the number of flats on the market, said László Balogh, lead expert at ingatlan.com.
At the end of March, the share of flats at a price of below HUF 30 million in private advertisements was 48%, compared to 63% one year before, and 53% in January.
The most expensive is Budapestʼs District 5, where the average price is HUF 926,000 per sqm, an 8% increase year-on-year.
Other popular districts are District 13, at HUF 622,000 per sqm (a 22% increase) and District 11, at HUF 648,000 per sqm (an 18% increase).
As for major provincial cities, average prices in Győr have risen to HUF 321,000 per sqm, after a price growth of 10% year-on-year, while prices per sqm are also higher in Kecskemét (HUF 306,000), Veszprém (HUF 329,000), Székesfehérvár (HUF 322,000), and Debrecen (HUF 300,000).
In parallel with the price increases, the average time needed for carrying out sales in urban areas has dropped from 96 to 82 days, Balogh said. In Budapest, house sales have sped up from 157 days to 142.
The fastest-selling properties are flats in prefabricated blocks, with the time needed for sale dropping from 58 to 54 days.
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