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CyprusCyprus has Europe's most under-occupied homes — but that does not mean housing is easy to access
Fresh Eurostat-based figures reported on 21 September show that 69.4% of people in Cyprus lived in under-occupied homes in 2025, far above the EU average of 33.4%, even though the island still has affordability pressure in parts of the rental market.
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CyprusCyprus property demand is still strong — but supply, costs and tourism now pull in different directions
Cyprus entered autumn 2026 with property sale contracts up about 14%, planned housing units up 63.7%, construction materials up 3.39% and tourist arrivals down 7% year to date.
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GeorgiaGeorgia's wages rose 8%, but construction pay barely moved
Average monthly nominal earnings reached GEL2,389.3 in the second quarter of 2026, up 8.0% year on year, while construction wages increased only 0.8% to GEL3,496.6.
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European marketBranded residences are shifting to resorts, raising the test for Black Sea projects
Knight Frank expects branded residence schemes to grow by more than 60% by 2031, with over half of projects now outside major cities, creating opportunity and a tougher credibility test for resort developments in Georgia, Cyprus, Greece and Bulgaria.
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RomaniaRomania completed 30% more homes as the future pipeline weakened
Romania delivered 31,958 homes in the first half of 2026, up 29.9% year on year, but the surge in current completions contrasts with weaker new construction starts and points to a two-speed supply cycle.
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RomaniaRomania, part 2: more homes are completing now — while permits point to a tighter future
Fresh INS data show 31,958 dwellings completed in the first half of 2026, almost 30% more than a year earlier. At the same time, residential building permits were down 9.6%. The two numbers are not contradictory: they describe different moments in the construction cycle.
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PolandPoland is developing two classes of land: plots with planning certainty, and plots with promises
The end of the transition period has not frozen Polish development, but it has made planning status more valuable. A plot with a valid local plan or an earlier zoning decision now carries a materially different timing and liquidity profile from land that still depends on a municipality completing the new planning framework.
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RomaniaRomania's housing paradox: prices are still rising while fewer apartments change hands
Romania is not behaving like a market in a classic correction. Apartment transactions fell about 9% nationwide in the first half of 2026, yet asking prices were still around 9% higher year on year by mid-summer. The explanation sits less in booming demand than in limited supply and sharply different city-level conditions.
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CyprusForeign buyers are surging in Cyprus. Are they actually driving the housing market?
Foreign demand is clearly gaining share in Cyprus, but the headline number is easy to misuse: deposited contracts, completed transfers and price pressure are not the same thing.
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CyprusCyprus has one rental market - Limassol has another
A September snapshot of 384 live one-bedroom listings puts Limassol's median asking rent at EUR 1,550 a month, versus EUR 900 in Larnaca and EUR 700 in Nicosia. The gap is large enough to treat Limassol as a separate affordability and investment case, not as a proxy for Cyprus as a whole.
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RomaniaRomania’s housing market is splitting: Bucharest stabilises while Cluj and Iași slow
Romania is not moving through one housing cycle in 2026. First-half apartment transactions fell 9% nationwide, but Bucharest was down only 2%, Timișoara grew, and the country’s most expensive regional markets weakened more sharply.
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GeorgiaThe €300m road that could change Gonio and Kvariati’s property story
Georgia has contracted an 11.3 km Batumi–Sarpi highway with a 7.6 km tunnel and a major Chorokhi bridge. The property question is not whether the road “raises prices”, but whether removing transit traffic from the resort strip changes accessibility, noise and the investment case for Gonio and Kvariati.
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European marketBulgaria’s housing boom is not crashing — but sellers are losing pricing power
Transaction activity has softened in Sofia, Varna and Burgas while price negotiation is becoming more common. The signal is not a crash: it is a market in which buyers appear to have more time and more leverage than they did during the strongest phase of the boom.
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CyprusCyprus mortgages are getting cheaper while housing demand rises — but the price signals disagree
Housing credit is easing just as demand for mortgages strengthens. Yet Cyprus's two official price gauges show very different annual growth rates, a reminder that “house-price inflation” depends heavily on which market slice is being measured.
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GreeceGreek Home Prices Are Still Rising, but the Pace Has Slowed Sharply
Apartment prices rose 5.7% year on year in Q1 2026, well below the 8.1% average gain in 2025. At the same time, residential investment jumped 15%, leaving Greece with a slower price cycle rather than a weak housing market.
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GeorgiaBatumi’s Average Apartment Price Is Not a Price Tag
Batumi’s headline property prices are rising rapidly. But several different datasets are measuring several different things — and the difference matters more than it first appears.
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