According to the European Union Statistics Service, compared to the previous quarter, house prices rose by 0.3% in the 20 eurozone countries and by 0.8% in the 27 member states as a whole.
In year-on-year variation, ten Member States recorded a decrease in the index, led by Luxembourg (-13.6%), followed by Germany (-10.2%) and Finland (-7.0%), with the main increases observed in Croatia (10.9%) and Poland ( 9.3%) and Bulgaria (9.2%).
Compared to the second quarter of 2023, house prices fell in seven of the 27 member states, with Luxembourg (-6.3%), Finland (-2.7%) and Germany (-1.4%).
The largest increases in the series were in turn recorded in Poland (4.5%), Romania (3.4%) and Denmark (3.1%).
In Portugal, the increase in housing prices slowed to 7.8% year-on-year and 1.8% quarter-on-quarter.