Households in eleven euro area countries expect their own home to gain 3.5% and mortgage rates to stay at 4.9%.
Housing Market
Cypriot builders paid 3.74% more for materials in September than a year earlier, with electrical fixtures up 8.38%.
Revenue will charge 7% of market value a year on derelict buildings from 2028, with the first bills due in June.
New building work in the euro area fell 3.8% in the year to August while specialist trades grew 3.1%.
Malta registered 974 property sales in September, down 11.5% on a year earlier, while the quarter set a record.
Spain's home sales rose 1.3 per cent in August as mortgage lending held up, but the registrars call it no trend change.
Croatia's house prices rose 12.7 per cent in a year, but recorded sales fell by a third and the data are provisional.
New home loans in the euro area cost 3.60% in August, up from 3.31% a year ago, as the cheap southern markets catch up.
Eurostat's second quarter index shows euro area house prices cooling to 4.0%, with Portugal leading and France falling.
ING Research expects Dutch home prices to keep rising into 2027, even as supply climbs and mortgage rates bite.
New build home sales in the Netherlands fell 19 percent, a clear sign the once hot housing market is cooling fast.
High rates and weak demand point to a slow UK property market through 2026, with recovery unlikely before 2027.