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The Home Start Program Could Increase Prices so Much that Most Borrowers Could Be Worse Off
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You can now listen to the Friday broadcast of Portfolio Checklist. In the first part of the program, we looked at how much the Otthon Start program could bring about a real estate price increase, and in light of this, whether it is worth buying the apartment or house you have chosen quickly, but at market interest rates. Our guest was István Palkó, Portfolio's senior financial analyst. In the second part, we reviewed the reasons for the strength…
Newly built apartments in a significant part of Budapest's districts are excluded from the program, but the Otthon Start program may still indirectly lead to an increase in housing construction.
According to the latest data from Duna House, a significant increase in prices can be observed in the rural real estate market in the second quarter of 2025: 44% of properties sold were sold at a price level above 600 thousand HUF/m², while a year earlier this ratio was only 24%. The proportion of real estate transactions above 50 million HUF almost doubled in parallel (from 27% to 49%). However, the proportion of first-time home buyers is stagn…
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