Lithuania recorded one of the fastest rates of house price growth in the European Union in the first quarter of 2026, with residential property prices rising 11.9% from a year earlier, according to data published Thursday by the EU’s statistical office.
Only Eurostat data for Spain (12.8%), Croatia (14.3%), Slovakia (14.4%), Bulgaria (14.8%) and Portugal (17.8%) showed stronger annual increases than Lithuania.
Among the Baltic states, home prices rose 10.9% year over year in Latvia and 5.9% in Estonia.
Finland was the only EU member state to record an annual decline in house prices, with values falling 2%.
Compared with the fourth quarter of 2025, Lithuanian home prices increased 3.3% in the January-March period. Prices rose 3.4% in Estonia and 1.2% in Latvia over the same period.
Across the European Union, house prices increased by an average of 5.1% year over year and 1.2% quarter over quarter, Eurostat said.
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