{"id":6619,"date":"2026-03-15T23:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:10:19","slug":"nearly-half-of-non-homeowning-europeans-cannot-or-will-not-buy-a-home-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/15\/nearly-half-of-non-homeowning-europeans-cannot-or-will-not-buy-a-home-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of non-homeowning Europeans cannot or will not buy a home, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the RE\/MAX European Housing Trend Report 2025, nearly half of non-homeowning Europeans are pessimistic about entering the property market, with 29% believing they will never afford a home. Pessimism is highest in Czechia (44%) and Slovenia (39%). 15% of respondents say they are not interested in purchasing a home at all. High &#8220;non-interest&#8221; rates of 31% in Germany and 25% in Austria, reflect cultural preferences for stable rental markets with strong tenant protections. Turkey remains a notable outlier with the lowest pessimism at 13%, as citizens there view real estate as a critical store of value against financial volatility. Overall, while 70% of Europeans currently own homes, there has been a shift from viewing property as a social milestone to a complex financial strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 19, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/02\/19\/nearly-half-of-europeans-cannot-or-will-not-buy-a-home-report-says\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the RE\/MAX European Housing Trend Report 2025, nearly half of non-homeowning Europeans are pessimistic about entering the property market, with 29% believing they will never afford a home. Pessimism is highest in Czechia (44%) and Slovenia (39%). 15% of respondents say they are not interested in purchasing a home at all. High &#8220;non-interest&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}