Belgian real estate market

Asking prices across all four Immoweb segments: houses and apartments, for sale and to rent. Headline figures cover to , compared against the preceding twelve months.

Houses

Apartments

These are asking prices, not sale prices. They are what sellers advertise on Immoweb, not what buyers ultimately paid. The Geography page compares them against Statbel's official recorded transaction prices, commune by commune.

What is gross rental yield?

Gross rental yield is the annual rent a property earns, expressed as a percentage of its price. It is the standard first measure of whether a property works as an investment rather than a home.

gross yield = (monthly rent × 12) ÷ purchase price

At the figures above, a typical Belgian house asking and renting for a month returns a year before any costs.

Two things it deliberately does not account for:

  1. Costs. Registration duty alone is 12.5% of the price in Wallonia and Brussels, 2% to 12% in Flanders depending on whether it becomes your main home. Add notary fees, maintenance, insurance, property tax, management and periods with no tenant. Net yield is materially lower than gross.
  2. Individual properties. The rent and the price come from two different sets of listings in the same category, so this is a market level ratio. It describes a segment, not a specific flat you might buy.

A higher yield is not automatically a better investment. Cheap areas tend to show high yields because prices are low relative to rents, while expensive areas show low yields because buyers are paying for expected capital growth rather than income. The Geography page maps that trade off commune by commune.

Price per m² over time

The shaded band marks a period with no data. Lines break across it rather than interpolating, because there is genuinely nothing observed there.

Data coverage

The listing data behind this dashboard was not collected continuously. Months where collection was interrupted or thin are shown below. Listing counts in those months reflect how much was collected, not how active the market was. Price and ratio metrics tolerate the unevenness far better, which is why they carry the dashboard.

months have no data at all (). No listings were captured during that period, so those months cannot be reconstructed. See Methodology.