Average house prices by country in Europe (2026)

Comparing house prices across Europe normally means stitching together a dozen national statistics offices, each publishing a different measure, in its own currency, on its own schedule. Below is one table instead: median asking prices for apartments and houses in twelve countries, all measured the same way, from listings published on Seeki.eu in August 2026.

Last reviewed: 18 August 2026.

People search for the average house price. Every figure here is a median, because a median resists the luxury tail at the top of every market and tracks what a typical home actually asks.

What is the average house price in each European country?

Twelve European countries ranked by median apartment asking price per square metre, cheapest first, with whole-apartment and whole-house medians alongside. Price per square metre is the column that survives a border. The whole-price columns don't, because a national median reflects the size and location of whatever sellers happen to be advertising.

Country	Median apartment €/m²	Median apartment price	Median house price
Poland	€2,572	€134,793	€220,137
Spain	€2,642	€240,000	€319,000
Hungary	€2,846	€165,205	€192,785
Italy	€2,872	€285,000	€290,000
Portugal	€3,333	€330,000	€415,000
Belgium	€3,381	€295,000	€395,000
Slovakia	€3,413	€208,500	€226,990
Germany	€3,560	€249,800	€431,925
Czechia	€4,097	€247,459	€284,806
France	€4,610	€269,000	€299,000
Netherlands	€5,508	€418,000	€525,000
Austria	€5,670	€377,000	€548,000

Every figure is a median asking price from published listings on Seeki.eu, computed in August 2026, with apartments filtered to 15 to 400 m² and all prices normalised to euros.

That last clause is the point. A national statistics office measures its own country well and no other, so twelve of them hand you twelve yardsticks. These rows come from one dataset watching all twelve markets at once, same filters, same conversion, same August cut-off, which is what makes the Austrian row and the Polish row comparable. The trade-off: these are asking prices from live adverts, not registered sale prices. For the city-level cut, see thirty European cities ranked on asking €/m².

Which countries are cheapest, and which are most expensive?

Poland is the cheapest of the twelve at €2,572/m² and Austria the dearest at €5,670/m², a gap of about 2.2 times. That's a far tighter spread than the five-times gap between Europe's cheapest and dearest big cities, because a national median folds a capital in with everything around it.

The middle is crowded. Eight countries sit between Hungary at €2,846/m² and France at €4,610/m², and four of those (Portugal, Belgium, Slovakia and Germany) fall inside a band of barely €230. Gaps that small say more about which homes came to market this month than about which country is dearer.

The extremes are easier to read. Austria's figure carries Vienna, where sale apartments ask €6,585/m², plus a high-income alpine west with little cheap stock to pull the median down. Poland's reflects local incomes across one of the deepest listing bases here, so the low price signals affordability, not a thin market.

Watch the columns disagree, though. Spain asks the second-lowest rate at €2,642/m², yet its median apartment is advertised at €240,000, above Slovakia's €208,500 at a dearer €3,413/m². Larger flats in pricier coastal towns lift the headline while the rate stays low. Compare on €/m².

Houses versus apartments: where is the gap widest?

Germany has the widest gap of the twelve. Its median apartment asks €249,800 and its median house €431,925, so a house carries about a 73% premium. Poland follows at 63% and Austria at 45%. At the other end Italy is nearly flat, €285,000 against €290,000, a difference under 2%, with Slovakia at 9% and France at 11% close behind.

The honest explanation is listing mix. France's median house asks €299,000, roughly a third below Germany's, even though French apartments ask €4,610/m² against Germany's €3,560. French house listings carry a deep rural tail that German ones don't, so one word covers a stone cottage in the Limousin and a commuter-belt semi outside Frankfurt. A national house median summarises what's for sale, never what a standard building costs.

Within a country the spread often beats the gap between countries. Czechia's middle half of apartment listings runs from €2,713 to €6,120/m², and Prague plus the industrial north explain most of that: Prague asks €6,963/m², Ústecký kraj €2,065/m². Italy and Spain carry interquartile ranges just as wide, so a single national figure hides plenty.

This is also where browsing beats reading. On the map you can pan straight across a border and watch listings arrive from both sides together, which is how a Bavarian budget turns into a Bohemian shortlist.

How do these prices compare with local incomes?

This is the column the table can't supply. Seeki.eu measures what homes ask, not what buyers earn, so nothing above adjusts for local wages. The ranking would shift if it did. Austria and the Netherlands sit near the top on price and on income, while Hungary and Poland sit at the bottom of both, compressing the real affordability gap well below the 2.2 times the euro figures show.

Be careful with the published affordability measures. The price-to-income ratios from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, and from the OECD are generally indices rebased to a reference year. They track whether a country grew more or less affordable over time, not how many annual salaries a home costs. Those two readings get conflated constantly.

What's measurable today is direction. By the Eurostat House Price Index for the first quarter of 2026, prices rose 5.1% across the EU year on year and 4.7% in the euro area, with Portugal up 17.8% and Slovakia up 14.4%. Both sit at the cheaper end of the table above, so the value markets are repricing fastest.

One practical note if you earn in one currency and shop in another: listings on Seeki.eu display in the currency you choose, so a Polish or Czech salary sits beside a euro asking price.

What does €250,000 buy in each country?

Divide a fixed budget by each country's median €/m² and the ranking turns from euros into floor space. At August 2026 medians, €250,000 buys roughly 97 m² of apartment in Poland, 95 m² in Spain, 88 m² in Hungary and 87 m² in Italy. The same money buys about 75 m² in Portugal, 74 m² in Belgium, 73 m² in Slovakia and 70 m² in Germany. At the dear end it's 61 m² in Czechia, 54 m² in France, 45 m² in the Netherlands and 44 m² in Austria.

Those are derived figures, arithmetic on the table above. They assume you buy at exactly the national median, which nobody does. Read them as scale: one budget, a family apartment in Poland and a one-bedroom in Austria.

For the city-level version, what €200,000 buys across Europe runs the same exercise across twenty cities, where the spread opens much wider than it does between countries. Weighing two specific homes in two countries, you can put up to four side by side with prices converted at ECB rates.

How do you check what a specific home should cost?

A country median is the wrong instrument for one flat. The right one is the local median €/m² for that address, adjusted for what moves a price on a single street: floor area, condition, floor level and whether there's a lift.

Seeki.eu turns that into a guide price. Give it a home's size, location and condition and it adjusts the local median €/m² from live listings, telling you whether an asking price sits above or below its neighbours. Treat it as a starting estimate. It's not an appraisal, and it won't satisfy a bank, a probate court or a tax office, all of which need registered comparables and a local surveyor. The value estimator sizes an offer, it doesn't sign one.

One thing the price columns leave out: purchase costs vary far more across Europe than the prices themselves, so a cheap country can close expensive once transfer tax, notary and registration are counted. The true cost of buying property in Europe works through them market by market.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average house price in Europe?

There's no single European figure. Median apartment asking prices run from €2,572/m² in Poland to €5,670/m² in Austria, a spread of about 2.2 times, with a twelve-country median near €3,400/m². Median house prices stretch further, from €192,785 in Hungary to €548,000 in Austria. Figures are Seeki.eu listings data, August 2026.

Which European country has the cheapest houses?

Hungary has the cheapest median house at €192,785, ahead of Poland at €220,137 and Slovakia at €226,990. Measured per square metre on apartments, Poland leads instead at €2,572/m², with Spain at €2,642 behind it. The rankings differ because a national house median depends heavily on which homes are advertised.

Are these average or median prices?

Medians. The median is the middle figure, so half the listings ask more and half ask less. An average gets dragged upward by a handful of very expensive homes, which is why it usually sits above the price a typical buyer meets. Every number here is a median asking price computed in August 2026.

Why are German houses so much more expensive than German apartments?

Germany shows the widest house-to-apartment gap here, €431,925 against €249,800, a premium of about 73%. The cause is what gets listed. German apartment listings spread across cities of every size, while its house listings concentrate in western commuter belts. France runs the opposite pattern, with a median house of only €299,000.

Are these asking prices or actual sale prices?

Asking prices, from live published listings. Sales usually close a little below the advertised figure, and that gap widens in slower markets. For completed-transaction data the authorities are Eurostat and the national land registries, though both publish national figures only and run a quarter or more in arrears.

How much apartment does €250,000 buy in Europe?

At August 2026 medians, roughly 97 m² in Poland, 87 m² in Italy, 70 m² in Germany, 54 m² in France and 44 m² in Austria. Each is the budget divided by that country's median asking €/m², so they describe scale, not any particular home. Real floor space depends on the city and the condition.

Sources

• Seeki.eu listings data, computed 18 August 2026 from published sale listings across twelve European countries. All figures are median asking prices, with apartments filtered to 15 to 400 m² and prices normalised to euros. The medians were computed over roughly 640,000 sale listings carrying both a valid price and a floor area, taken from live adverts, not registered transactions.
• Eurostat House Price Index, first quarter of 2026, year-on-year change: EU +5.1%, euro area +4.7%, Portugal +17.8%, Slovakia +14.4%. Eurostat builds this index from completed transactions and publishes it at national level only, a quarter or more in arrears.
• Eurostat's house price index release carries no house-price-to-income ratio, and the price-to-income measures published by Eurostat and the OECD are rebased indices. That's why no salary multiple appears above.

A table like this only works because the same yardstick reaches both sides of every border, which is the point of keeping European listings in one place. Browse any country's live medians, then check where rental yields land before you commit.