Data story · House price index
A decade of house prices, country by country
Since 2015, prices in Turkey have moved to 1884.9 on the official index (2015 = 100) — roughly 1785 % above their 2015 level — while Finland sits at 97.2. Remember what an index is: it measures movement, not price levels. A country can be far cheaper in absolute terms and still top this list.
| # | Country | House prices |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland | 97.2 |
| 2 | Italy | 119.2 |
| 3 | France | 126.7 |
| 4 | Sweden | 136.8 |
| 5 | Belgium | 145.9 |
| 6 | Germany | 153.4 |
| 7 | Cyprus | 155.3 |
| 8 | Denmark | 161.1 |
| 9 | Luxembourg | 165.2 |
| 10 | Norway | 167.3 |
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| 27 | United States | 332.7 |
| 28 | Hungary | 387.1 |
| 29 | Turkey | 1884.9 |
How to read this figure
This is an index, not a price: 2015 = 100, so it tracks how much prices have moved, not what a house costs. It covers the whole country — hot capitals and cooling regions averaged together — and says nothing about absolute levels: a country can be far cheaper than another yet have a higher index because its prices rose faster since 2015. Source: the official house price index (Eurostat for Europe, Case-Shiller for the US).
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