Indices of residential property prices: Q4 2020
09/03/2021 - Press Releases
According to data collected from credit institutions,(1) nominal apartment prices are estimated to have increased on average by 2.6% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2020, whilst in 2020 the average annual increase in apartment prices was 4.2%, compared with an average increase of 7.2% in 2019.
Indices of apartment prices by age and geographical area
More specifically, in the fourth quarter of 2020, the year-on-year rate of increase in prices was 2.0% for "new" apartments (up to 5 years old) and 3.0% for "old" apartments (over 5 years old). For 2020, prices of “new” apartments increased on average by 4.7%, against an increase of 7.7% in 2019, whereas prices of “old” apartments increased by 3.9% in 2020, against an increase of 6.9% in 2019.
According to regional data, in the fourth quarter of 2020 apartment prices are estimated to have increased year-on-year by 5.2% in Athens and 4.1% in Thessaloniki, whereas minor decline was recorded in other cities and other areas of Greece (-0.5% and -0.3% respectively). For 2020, apartment prices increased on average by 7.4%, 4.6%, 0.1% and 1.8%, respectively, in the above-mentioned areas. Finally, as regards all urban areas of the country, in the fourth quarter of 2020 apartment prices increased by 2.8% year-on-year, whereas for 2020 as a whole the average annual increase was 4.5%.
Detailed tables on house prices by geographical area and with a distinction between “new” and “old” apartments are published in the “Bulletin of Conjunctural Indicators” (Tables ΙΙ.7, ΙΙ.7.1, ΙΙ.7.2 and ΙΙ.8) and are also available on the Bank of Greece website under “Real Estate Market” section.
| INDICES OF APARTMENT PRICES (1) (2) | |
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| | 2019 | 2020* | 2019 | 2020 * | |
| Q4 | Q1* | Q2* | Q3* | Q4* | |
| Ι. TOTAL | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 64.4 | 67.1 | 65.5 | 66.7 | 67.0 | 67.5 | 67.2 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 7.2 | 4.2 | 7.5 | 6.7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 2.6 | |
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| II. BY AGE | |
| 1. New (up to 5 years old) | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 66.7 | 69.8 | 68.7 | 69.4 | 69.7 | 70.2 | 70.0 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 7.7 | 4.7 | 9.1 | 7.6 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 2.0 | |
| 2. Old (over 5 years old) | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 63.0 | 65.4 | 63.6 | 65.1 | 65.4 | 65.8 | 65.5 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 6.9 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.0 | |
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| ΙΙΙ. BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA | |
| 1. Athens | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 63.9 | 68.6 | 65.9 | 67.7 | 68.4 | 69.1 | 69.3 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 10.6 | 7.4 | 11.4 | 10.9 | 7.2 | 6.4 | 5.2 | |
| 2. Thessaloniki | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 58.9 | 61.6 | 59.4 | 61.3 | 61.8 | 61.8 | 61.8 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 6.9 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 5.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.1 | |
| 3. Other cities | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 64.5 | 64.5 | 64.4 | 64.4 | 64.6 | 65.1 | 64.1 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 3.7 | 0.1 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.1 | -0.5 | -0.5 | |
| 4. Other areas of Greece | |
| Price index (2007=100) | 67.7 | 68.9 | 68.5 | 69.5 | 68.9 | 69.1 | 68.3 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 4.5 | 1.8 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.4 | -0.3 | |
| 5. Urban areas (total) | |
| Price index (1997=100) | 163.5 | 170.9 | 166.5 | 169.7 | 171.0 | 171.9 | 171.1 | |
| (%) change over previous year | 7.4 | 4.5 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 2.8 | |
* Provisional data.
Source: Bank of Greece.
(1) Bank of Greece indices of residential property prices are based on detailed data reported to the Real Estate Market Analysis Section as from 2009, under Bank of Greece Governor’s Act 2610/31.10.2008, by all credit institutions operating in Greece. These data include banks’ valuations of the current market value and qualitative characteristics of residential property. A total of 811.4 thousand valuations were reported to the Bank of Greece with reference period up to end-January 2021 (65.0% apartments, 18.8% houses, 6.2% maisonettes, 6.2% building plots and 3.8% other types of property).
(2) Any differences between levels and percentage changes in the table are due to rounding.