{"id":312910,"date":"2026-11-13T11:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=312910"},"modified":"2026-11-13T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:41:24","slug":"house-prices-and-incomes-in-europe-where-is-it-getting-harder-to-buy-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/312910\/","title":{"rendered":"House prices and incomes in Europe: Where is it getting harder to buy a home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>How far does a household&rsquo;s income go when buying a home? In 17 EU countries, it bought less in 2025 than it did a decade earlier. Eurostat&rsquo;s house price-to-income ratio, showing how household income is changing relative to house prices, rose by 6.8% across the EU over that period, though it fell in 10 member states, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/11\/13\/house-prices-and-incomes-in-europe-where-is-it-getting-harder-to-buy-a-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, house prices in the EU rose by 62% in the ten years to the second quarter of 2026. In response to the housing crisis across the bloc, the European Commission presented its European Affordable Housing Plan in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2015 and 2025, Portugal recorded the largest increase in the house price-to-income ratio, at 60.8%. The Netherlands followed at 34.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The ratio also jumped by more than 20% in Hungary (26.5%), Czechia (25.8%), Spain (24.5%) and Greece (22.5%). This means homes became less affordable in these countries, as house prices rose faster than incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The ratio also rose by more than 10% in Slovenia (18.2%), Ireland (14.4%), Austria (13.6%), Slovakia (11.2%), Luxembourg (10.6%) and Lithuania (10.1%).<\/p>\n<p>At the other end, Romania&rsquo;s ratio fell by 42.8%, the biggest drop in the EU. House prices were substantially lower relative to household incomes in 2025 than in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The house price-to-income ratio also fell by 25.2% in Finland and 16.2% in Bulgaria. Cyprus (12%) and Italy (11.9%) also recorded double-digit declines.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far does a household&rsquo;s income go when buying a home? In 17 EU countries, it bought less in 2025 than it did a decade earlier. Eurostat&rsquo;s house price-to-income ratio, showing how household income is changing relative to house prices, rose by 6.8% across the EU over that period, though it fell in 10 member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":312904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312911,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312910\/revisions\/312911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}