House prices: Slovenia against Europe
How fast house prices are rising in Slovenia against the rest of Europe, how much of that rise inflation eats, and whether pay is keeping up. Every figure here comes from Eurostat, the Slovenian ones included, because countries can only be compared when they are measured with one instrument.
Where Slovenia stands today
Last refreshed: 20 Aug 2026.
How to read these numbers
Eurostat's house price index measures how the price of a comparable dwelling changes. A value of 100 is the price level in the base year and 200 means it has doubled. It covers new and existing dwellings bought by households, on one method in every country, so a difference between two countries is a difference in prices rather than a difference in bookkeeping.
Eurostat deliberately does not publish a comparable euro-per-square-metre price by country. The average apartment in Ljubljana and the average apartment in Vienna are two different apartments, so a €/m² comparison would mostly measure what is being sold. Actual Slovenian €/m² figures, from the transaction register, are in the municipality price index.
Nominal growth is the price as written. Real growth is what survives once general price rises are taken out: if housing went up 60 per cent over a decade while everything else went up 30, real growth is about 23 per cent. The real figure answers whether housing became more expensive against everything else, or whether money simply lost value.
Price growth on its own does not say whether a home is harder to buy. Pay does. So the wage index (Eurostat's labour cost index, the wages and salaries part) sits beside the price index, measured over the same period and rebased onto the same year. The distance between them is in percentage points: prices up 115 per cent against pay up 75 is a gap of 40 points against the buyer.
The price-to-income ratio is a standardised Eurostat indicator: house prices divided by income per head, again as an index. Above 100 means housing costs more relative to income than it did in the base year, below 100 means less. It is published once a year and runs about eighteen months behind.
The index covers a whole country. Within one, the spread is enormous, and that spread is what the rest of this site is about: Slovenian prices by municipality, by settlement and by individual sale.
Prices since 2007
Slovenia and the European Union average, both indexed to 2015 = 100. Where the lines separate, the Slovenian market moved differently from the European one.
Slovenia: 2007 121, 2025 215; EU (27): 2007 102, 2025 162
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| Year | Slovenia | EU (27) |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 120.9 | 102.3 |
| 2008 | 129.3 | 103.7 |
| 2009 | 117.1 | 99.8 |
| 2010 | 117.2 | 100.3 |
| 2011 | 120.4 | 100.9 |
| 2012 | 112.1 | 98.8 |
| 2013 | 106.2 | 97.1 |
| 2014 | 99.2 | 97.8 |
| 2015 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| 2016 | 103.3 | 104.3 |
| 2017 | 111.8 | 109.3 |
| 2018 | 121.6 | 114.8 |
| 2019 | 129.7 | 120.4 |
| 2020 | 135.7 | 127.1 |
| 2021 | 151.3 | 137.9 |
| 2022 | 173.7 | 148.9 |
| 2023 | 186.2 | 148.5 |
| 2024 | 200.3 | 153.5 |
| 2025 | 214.9 | 161.9 |
Price growth by country
The change in the index between 2015 and 2025. Every country that has reported 2025 is here, each one measured over exactly the same period as the others.
Fastest price growth
Since 2015, nominal
- Hungary+267%
- Portugal+164%
- Iceland+163%
- Lithuania+158%
- Bulgaria+149%
- Czechia+145%
- Croatia+127%
- Estonia+121%
- Poland+117%
- Netherlands+115%
Slowest price growth
Since 2015, nominal
- Finland−1%
- Italy+16%
- France+27%
- Sweden+33%
- Belgium+45%
- Cyprus+51%
- Germany+53%
- Denmark+53%
- Norway+62%
- Romania+65%
| Country | Index (2015 = 100) | Last year | Since 2015 | Real | Wages | Prices − wages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 366.6 | +18.3% | +267% | +111% | +193% | +74 pp |
| Portugal | 263.9 | +17.6% | +164% | +111% | +51% | +113 pp |
| Iceland | 263.1 | +5.1% | +163% | — | — | — |
| Lithuania | 258.1 | +9.8% | +158% | +65% | +235% | −77 pp |
| Bulgaria | 249.2 | +14.6% | +149% | +75% | +188% | −39 pp |
| Czechia | 245.4 | +10.4% | +145% | +58% | +85% | +60 pp |
| Croatia | 227.1 | +13.9% | +127% | +65% | +78% | +49 pp |
| Estonia | 220.7 | +5.2% | +121% | +36% | +100% | +20 pp |
| Poland | 216.8 | +4.9% | +117% | +41% | +123% | −6 pp |
| Netherlands | 215.2 | +8.5% | +115% | +58% | +40% | +76 pp |
| Slovenia | 214.9 | +7.3% | +115% | +64% | +75% | +40 pp |
| Latvia | 214.1 | +7.6% | +114% | +42% | +120% | −6 pp |
| Slovakia | 204.2 | +12.4% | +104% | +37% | +95% | +9 pp |
| Ireland | 197.2 | +7.5% | +97% | +62% | +40% | +57 pp |
| Spain | 180.6 | +12.7% | +81% | +43% | +27% | +54 pp |
| Malta | 173.6 | +6.0% | +74% | +38% | +36% | +37 pp |
| Austria | 167.3 | +2.6% | +67% | +20% | +47% | +20 pp |
| Luxembourg | 165.1 | +1.6% | +65% | +29% | +35% | +30 pp |
| Romania | 164.8 | +5.7% | +65% | +3% | +279% | −214 pp |
| European Union (27) | 161.9 | +5.5% | +62% | +22% | — | — |
| Norway | 161.7 | +5.7% | +62% | +16% | +48% | +14 pp |
| Euro area | 153.5 | +5.2% | +53% | +19% | — | — |
| Denmark | 152.8 | +7.5% | +53% | +26% | — | — |
| Germany | 152.7 | +3.2% | +53% | +16% | +37% | +16 pp |
| Cyprus | 150.9 | +4.5% | +51% | +28% | +32% | +19 pp |
| Belgium | 144.9 | +3.2% | +45% | +7% | — | — |
| Sweden | 133.4 | +1.0% | +33% | +1% | — | — |
| France | 127.3 | +0.7% | +27% | +2% | +24% | +3 pp |
| Italy | 116.2 | +4.0% | +16% | −6% | +19% | −3 pp |
| Finland | 99.0 | −2.3% | −1% | −19% | +23% | −24 pp |
28 countries, all read as at 2025. Real growth is nominal growth corrected for that country's own harmonised inflation. The gap is the distance in percentage points between price growth and wage growth; an empty cell means the country has not reported that series for the period. No figure for this year: Greece, Switzerland, Türkiye, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, United Kingdom.
Prices against inflation
The same Slovenian price twice: as written, and as a wallet sees it. The lower line is the upper one divided by general price growth, so it shows how much housing rose above everything else.
Real: 2007 140, 2025 164
The newest month published is July 2026: annual inflation of 3.0% in Slovenia and 3.0% across the European Union. Below are the countries with the highest rate that month.
Highest inflation
Annual rate, July 2026
- Romania8.2%
- Iceland5.6%
- Lithuania5.4%
- Bulgaria4.4%
- Cyprus4.4%
- Spain3.9%
- Belgium3.6%
- Croatia3.6%
- Luxembourg3.4%
- Slovakia3.2%
Prices against pay
The house price index and the wage index, both based at 2015 = 100. While the lines run together, a home is no harder to buy than it was; when price pulls away, it is.
Wages: 2007 82, 2025 175
Prices furthest ahead of pay
Distance in percentage points, since 2015
- Portugal+113 pp
- Netherlands+76 pp
- Hungary+74 pp
- Czechia+60 pp
- Ireland+57 pp
- Spain+54 pp
- Croatia+49 pp
- Slovenia+40 pp
- Malta+37 pp
- Luxembourg+30 pp
The wage index is Eurostat's labour cost index for wages and salaries across the whole business economy, averaged from quarters into years. It measures gross pay before tax.
What housing takes out of an income
Two indicators that put price beside income. The price-to-income ratio is for 2024, the share of overburdened households for 2025.
| Country | Price to income (2015 = 100) | Housing cost overburden | Inflation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 144.3 | 6.3% | 3.1% |
| Netherlands | 129.3 | 6.5% | 3.0% |
| Czechia | 119.4 | 8.2% | 1.3% |
| Slovenia | 116.9 | 3.5% | 3.0% |
| Hungary | 116.7 | 5.3% | 1.6% |
| Luxembourg | 116.1 | 8.1% | 3.4% |
| Spain | 114.5 | 7.2% | 3.9% |
| Ireland | 113.8 | 5.3% | 3.1% |
| Austria | 113.3 | 6.1% | 2.7% |
| Lithuania | 109.9 | 5.7% | 5.4% |
| Estonia | 108.7 | 8.8% | 2.0% |
| Denmark | 107.3 | 23.4% | 1.6% |
| European Union (27) | 105.7 | 7.7% | 3.0% |
| Latvia | 105.5 | 5.7% | 2.5% |
| Germany | 104.3 | 11.2% | 2.8% |
| Slovakia | 103.0 | 3.5% | 3.2% |
| Poland | 100.5 | 4.1% | 3.1% |
| Croatia | 98.4 | 3.2% | 3.6% |
| Belgium | 97.0 | 6.7% | 3.6% |
| Sweden | 95.4 | 10.8% | 0.3% |
| France | 94.0 | 6.4% | 2.4% |
| Cyprus | 90.2 | 2.4% | 4.4% |
| Malta | 89.3 | 6.0% | 2.1% |
| Italy | 87.0 | 5.0% | 2.9% |
| Bulgaria | 78.6 | 6.9% | 4.4% |
| Finland | 77.7 | 4.7% | 2.5% |
| Romania | 55.9 | 5.0% | 8.2% |
| Norway | — | 13.5% | 2.9% |
Housing cost overburden is the share of people whose household spends more than 40 per cent of its disposable income on housing, counting rent or mortgage, running costs and energy. A low figure in a country where most people own outright does not necessarily mean housing is affordable; it means those who already have a roof pay little each month for it.
Where the data comes from
Everything on this page comes from Eurostat's database through their open API. Each row below is one dataset with its own code, so any figure here can be checked at the source.
| Dataset | What it holds | Last published |
|---|---|---|
prc_hpi_a | House price index, annual | 2 Jul 2026 |
prc_hpi_q | House price index, quarterly | 2 Jul 2026 |
prc_hicp_ainr | Harmonised index of consumer prices, annual | 17 Jul 2026 |
prc_hicp_minr | Inflation, monthly annual rate | 19 Aug 2026 |
lc_lci_r2_q | Labour cost index, wages and salaries | 19 Aug 2026 |
tipsho60 | House price-to-income ratio | 16 Apr 2026 |
ilc_lvho07a | Housing cost overburden rate | 8 Jun 2026 |
Data: Eurostat, © European Union, reused under Eurostat's reuse policy with attribution. This page is not a Eurostat product and Eurostat is not responsible for it. The figures refresh themselves as Eurostat publishes: the price index quarterly, inflation monthly, wages quarterly, affordability once a year.
And at home?
This page compares movement. What was actually paid for a particular apartment on a particular street is in the transaction register: every sale since 2007, by municipality, settlement and street.
Frequently asked questions
Why do the Slovenian figures here differ from the ones on the rest of the site?
Because they measure different things. The other pages publish the median achieved price in €/m² from the GURS transaction register; this page uses Eurostat's index, which measures the percentage change in the price of a comparable dwelling. The index is the only thing comparable across borders, and the €/m² median is the only thing that says how much money actually changed hands.
Why is there no euro-per-square-metre price for other countries?
Because Eurostat does not publish one, for good reason. The average dwelling sold differs from country to country, so a €/m² gap would mostly measure what is being sold rather than how expensive it is. Movement is what compares.
What does real growth mean?
That general price rises have been taken out of it. If housing rose 60 per cent while everything else rose 30, real growth is not 30 per cent but roughly 23: 1.60 divided by 1.30. The real figure shows how much housing rose against everything else.
How often does the data refresh?
Eurostat publishes the house price index quarterly, about three months after a quarter ends. Inflation is monthly, wages quarterly, and the price-to-income ratio annual. The page picks up the newest published values automatically, and the date of the last refresh is printed under the source table.
Does the index cover cash purchases and company transactions?
It covers dwellings bought by households, new and existing, however they were paid for. It does not cover commercial property, land without a building, or company-to-company deals that are not the purchase of a home.