A house in Flemish or Walloon Brabant is twice as expensive as in Hainaut

The housing market in Belgium in 2017

Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, has published the property prices for the whole year 2017, down to the municipal level. Prices of houses, villas and flats keep increasing. Regular houses became 2.8 % more expensive, villas 2.9 % and flats 2.3 %.

Average house price: 218,704 euros.

The price for a regular house amounted on average to 218,704 euros in 2017. A villa cost 359,945 euros and a flat 226,820 euros. There are considerable regional disparities: the Walloon Region is the cheapest, with an average price of 162,333 euros for a reguluar house, followed by the Flemish Region, with an average of 234,397 euros. The Brussels-Capital Region is much more expensive: a regular house cost there on average 418,072 euros.

Differences between provinces

At provincial level, the Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant are the most expensive, and Hainaut is the cheapest: a house in Flemish Brabant cost on average 269,633 euros, and in Walloon Brabant 267,389 euros. This is twice as expensive as the average price for a house in Hainaut: 134,691 euros.

Ixelles is the most expensive municipality, Viroinval the cheapest

The most expensive municipality is Ixelles, with an average price of 690,387 euros. The cheapest houses can be found in Viroinval, with an average price of 94,583 euros. In the Flemish Region, Kraainem is the most expensive municipality (416,154 euros) and Mesen the least expensive (105,559 euros). In the Walloon Region, the most expensive municipality was Lasne (455,061 euros) and the least expensive municipality Viroinval (94,583 euros). In the Brussels-Capital Region, buyers pay the highest prices in Ixelles (690,387 euros) and the lowest prices in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (280,457 euros).

Annexes

Overview

The table below lists the average prices for the latest available years.