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27th January, 2026

Housing prices up 21.3% across Hungary


Housing prices rose by 5% nationwide from the second quarter of 2025 to the third, pushing annual growth to 21.3%, according to the latest MNB data.
Such rapid price increases have not occurred since the second quarter of 2022.
The MNB’s November forecast suggests annual growth could reach 28.8% by the end of 2025, which would mark the sharpest rise in housing prices this century.
In Budapest, prices grew by 3.2% quarter on quarter, lifting annual growth to 26.2%, the fastest pace in more than nine years.
Prices in other cities rose at a similar quarterly rate of 3.2%, resulting in annual growth of 19.1%.
The steepest quarterly increase was recorded in villages, where prices rose by 8.9% in the third quarter and were 18.6% above their level of one year earlier.
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Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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