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House Prices increased 8.4% in 2020 and 8.6% in the 4th quarter of 2020
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House Prices increased 8.4% in 2020 and 8.6% in the 4th quarter of 2020 - 4th Quarter 2020
23 March 2021

Summary

In 2020, the House Price Index (HPI) increased 8.4% when compared with the previous year. This rate of change was 1.2 percentage points (pp) lower than in 2019. From 2019 to 2020, the prices of existing dwellings (8.7%) increased at a higher rate than new dwellings (7.4%).
In the 4th quarter of 2020, the HPI year-on-year rate of change was 8.6%, 1.5 pp more when compared to the previous quarter. In this period, price increases were less intense for existing dwellings than for new dwellings, 8.5% and 9.0%, respectively.
In 2020, a total of 171,800 dwellings were transacted, 5.3% less than in 2019. The total amount of transactions reached 26.2 billion euros, an increase of 2.4% compared to the previous year. The value of new dwelling transactions increased by 9.3% to €5.4 billion and that of existing dwellings rose by 0.7% to €20.8 billion euros.
Between October and December 2020, the number of transacted dwellings stood at 49,734, resulting in a year-on-year rate of change of 1.0% and an increase of 10.2% when compared with the previous quarter. In this period, the value of house sales totalled 7.5 billion euros, up by 8.7% compared to the same period in 2019.

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