Romania ranks first in apartments’ owners number in EU

Romania ranked first in apartments’ owners number in EU in 2016, with 96 percent, above the EU average of 69.3 percent, according to the data of the European Statistics Office (Eurostat).

Last year, in every EU member state, there were more apartments owners than tenants. The biggest numbers of apartments owners were registered in Romania ( 96 percent), Lithuania (90.3 percent), Croatia (90.1 percent), Slovakia (89.5 percent) and Hungary (86.3 percent) and the lowest numbers weer in Germany (51.7 percent), Austria (55 percent), Denmark (62 percent), UK (63.4 percent), France (64.9 percent) and Sweden (65.2 percent).

Only 4 percent of Romanians were tenants last year, under the EU average of 30.7 percent. In comparison, 48.3 percent of Germans and 45 percent of Austrians were tenants.

In 2016 more than a half (57.5 percent) of EU population lived in houses and 41.8 percent in apartments.

The highest percentage of EU population living in houses was in Ireland (92.5 percent), UK (84.8 percent), Croatia (79.8 percent), Belgium 977.7 percent) and Netherlands (76.2 percent).

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In Romania, 63.7 percent of the population lived in houses, while 37.3 percent lived in apartments.