Real estate is a capstone connection between various economic agents and markets. It is the main store of household wealth, serves as collateral for mortgage loans in the banking system, aids the transmission of monetary policy, and can propagate financial crises when overvalued. Yet comparable house-price data across the European Union (EU) and the euro area is unavailable, which hinders the design and evaluation of common monetary and economic policy that operates across heterogeneous housing markets. We derive monthly subnational European Real Estate Indicators (EREI) from online residential property advertisements in 16 European countries. The release covers April 2024 to June 2026 and contains 48,168 region-month-segment observations for 1,154 NUTS 3 regions, aggregating more than 43 million listing observations across the monthly sale and rental cross-sections. Each region-month segment reports the number of advertisements and summary statistics for asking prices per square meter and listing durations. The release also includes sale-segment indices for Europe, the euro area, and individual countries. Thirteen covered countries are EU members, which represented 85% of EU-27 gross domestic product in 2024. EREI data support research on a wide range of socio-economic phenomena associated with real estate dynamics, such as the evaluation of monetary policy or macroprudential policy effects on financial stability.

We show that online listing prices closely approximate transaction prices across Europe. Our validation uses the IWH European Real Estate Index (EREI), a near-real-time database of monthly purchase prices, rents, listing counts, and time on market for 1,154 NUTS-3 regions in 16 countries since April 2024. With publication lags as short as one month, validated listing prices offer a timely, comparable complement to official house price statistics. Purchase price levels correlate between 0.94 and 0.97 with transaction prices in the five most populous markets, while calibration slopes range from 0.95 to 1.00. Aggregate listing prices exceed benchmark transaction prices by 13% to 22%.

Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat im zweiten Quartal 2026 erneut leicht zugelegt. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukte nahm um 0,2% zu, nachdem es bereits zu Jahresbeginn um 0,4% expandiert hatte. Getragen wurde dieser Zuwachs vor allem von den Exporten. Die Konsumausgaben nahmen lediglich verhalten zu und die Investitionen gingen zurück. Auch im dritten Quartal bleiben die konjunkturellen Risiken hoch. So sorgt der Iran-Konflikt weiterhin für volatile Energiepreise. Zugleich beeinträchtigt das historische Niedrigwasser an Rhein, Elbe und Donau gegenwärtig den Transport erheblich und dürfte damit die Produktion belasten. Dem entgegen stehen kräftige Zuwächse bei den genehmigten Rüstungsexporten. Insgesamt sprechen die aktuellen Indikatoren für eine Fortsetzung der Erholung (vgl. Abbildung 1). Nach dem IWH-Flash-Indikator dürfte das Bruttoinlandsprodukt im dritten Quartal 2026 um 0,3% zulegen. Für das vierte Quartal zeichnet sich eine schwächere Dynamik ab.