Home Prices in Hungary Climb at Fastest Rate in EU

  • 20 Nov 2025 5:24 AM
Home Prices in Hungary Climb at Fastest Rate in EU
Home prices in Hungary rose 17.9pc year-on-year in the second quarter, climbing at the fastest pace in the European Union, the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) highlighted in a report published.

Presenting the report on the home market, Sandor Winkler, who heads the central bank's real estate market analysts, said preliminary data showed home price increases accelerated in Q3, rising 23.9pc nationwide and 29.9pc in Budapest.

He added that overvaluation had reached 18.8pc in Q2.

While home sales fell in big cities and rose in smaller settlements in the first half of the year, transactions jumped 37pc in September with the launch of the Home Start subsidised credit scheme for first-time home buyers.

Winkler said homes that were priced under the scheme's HUF 1.5m/sqm eligibility threshold accounted for 81pc of transactions in the capital and nearly all transactions in the rest of the country in Q3.

 

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