House prices versus rent by country

Every economy Bullrun holds a reading for: 22 in all, ranked highest first. New Zealand is the highest at +70.63% and Finland the lowest at -8.71%; the median is +35.08%. Each row carries its own period and source, because these providers publish on different calendars - two rows in this table can be more than a year apart.

• Economies covered22
• Highest+70.63% New Zealand
• Lowest-8.71% Finland
• Median+35.08%

House prices versus rent by country, ranked

How the scale reads

These are the same bands that shade the map on the Global Markets dashboard, so a country's colour there and its band here always agree.

What this measures

How far the price-to-rent ratio sits above or below that economy's OWN long-run average, in percent - buying priced against renting, the housing equivalent of a price-to-earnings ratio. Same 22-economy coverage and the same own-history scoring as the income measure, and the two disagree wherever rents and incomes have moved apart. The bands differ from the income measure's because price-to-rent runs about double price-to-income almost everywhere: rents are sticky and often regulated, prices are not.

Source: OECD analytical house price indicators. Coverage differs from metric to metric because these providers cover different sets of economies, and a gap is left as a gap rather than filled from a proxy - an absent economy is one we hold no reading for, never a zero. See the data license.

Other metrics by country

Global markets dashboard · Every economy scored · Screen stocks by country