Housing price growth in Romania lags EU average

Business Forum

4 July, 2025 at 12:54 PM

Romania is among the few member states where residential prices have grown at rates below the EU average of around 58%, between Q1 2010 and Q1 2025, according to Eurostat.

Romania's housing price index for Q1 2025 stands at 135.31, which means that housing prices were up by around 35% since 2010.

Meanwhile, Italy saw prices rise by 4%, and in Cyprus they gained 1%. Finland's housing market also grew more slowly by 6%. Additionally, both Spain and France exhibited more modest growth, with their price growth rates at 28% and 27%, respectively.

Over the same period, house prices more than tripled in Hungary (+260%) and Estonia (+238%) and doubled or more than doubled in 9 EU countries: Lithuania (+194%), Latvia (+154%), Czechia (+147%), Portugal (+130%), Bulgaria (+125%), Austria (+113%), Luxembourg and Poland (both +102%) and Slovakia (+100%).

Market beat: How large office tenants gain leverage in Bucharest

Lavinia Ioniță Rasmussen, Real Estate Partner at Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen (NNDKP), talked to Property Forum about the firm's growing portfolio in industrial and renewable energy, but also about the new EU rules that will boost investments in green buildings.

Real estate

Speedwell kicks off last phase of resi project in Bucharest

Speedwell has started the construction of the last building of its Triama Residence project in Bucharest.  

Real estate

Cityring Property explores new resi investment in Bucharest

Romanian developer Cityring Property is exploring a new residential development on a land plot of 6.5 hectares in northern Bucharest close to Atria Urban Resort, where it launched the last development phase.

Real estate

Home deliveries in Romania fall 20% in H1 2024

Romania's residential market recorded around 26,000 new home completions during H1 2024, down 20% over the same period of last year, according to Colliers data. 