House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.3% in both the euro area and the EU in the third quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter of the previous year.
Among the Member States for which data are available, the highest annual increases in house prices in the third quarter of 2018 were recorded in Slovenia (+15.1%), the Netherlands (+10.2%) and Ireland (+9.1%), while prices fell in Sweden (-2.1%) and Italy (-0.8%).
Compared with the previous quarter, the highest increases were recorded in the Netherlands (+3.3%), Malta (+3.1%) and Croatia (+2.8%), while decreases were observed in Italy (-0.8%), Romania (-0.7%), Finland (-0.4%), Slovakia (-0.3%) and Hungary (-0.2%).