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Hungary: House price to income ratio

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Country: Hungary Indicator: House price to income ratio Year: 2024

Country overview

Hungary

Current reading for House price to income ratio in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: House price to income ratio

Latest value

99.00 Index, long-term average = 100

European ranking

13 / 27

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+1.9 puntos

Hungary is 1.9 points above the European average.

EU: 97.13

Affected population

9.5M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 99.00 Index, long-term average = 100 Europe benchmark: 97.13 Index, long-term average = 100

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Indicator: House price to income ratio

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At a glance

Hungary performs less favourably than the European benchmark on House price to income ratio, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.

European comparison in Hungary

In Hungary, Price to income is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 99.0 index points versus 97.1 index points in 2024, a gap of 1.9 index points.

Recent trend

In Hungary, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 101.00 in 2019 to 99.00 in 2024. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 97.07 in 2023 to 99.00 in 2024, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Reading within the topic

In Hungary, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.