Hemnet’s Buyer Barometer February 2025: More homebuyers believe in falling prices
6 March 2025
In Hemnet's Buyer Barometer in March, housing price expectations clearly declined. The share of buyers who believe in rising prices dropped from 44 percent in February to 40 percent in March. At the same time, the share of buyers who expect falling housing prices increased by 4 percentage points, from 13 to 17 percent.
Overall, this results in a net outcome of +24 percentage points in Hemnet's Buyer Barometer, 7 percentage points lower than in February's survey. Although there is still a relatively strong belief in rising prices, price expectations have clearly weakened and are now at their lowest level in a year. The share of buyers expecting rising prices has decreased from 54 percent in last December's peak to 40 percent.
Percentage of buyers expecting:
Increasing prices: 40.4 percent (44.0% in the previous month)
Decreasing prices: 16.9 percent (12.9 % in the previous month)
Unchanged prices: 42.7 percent (43.1% in the previous month)
Erik Holmberg, market Analyst at Hemnet, commented:
“The lower price expectations are likely partly due to increased uncertainty around inflation and interest rates. The rising geopolitical uncertainty may also affect future outlooks, though it usually has a limited impact on actual price development as it is interest rates that are most consequential. If price expectations continue to decline, this could eventually be reflected in future price trends. At the same time, more than twice as many still believe in rising prices compared to falling prices.”.
Hemnet’s Buyers’ Barometer went out to 2,137 respondents between 1 and 3 March.
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About Hemnet Buyers’ Barometer
The Buyer’s Barometer is a survey that asks Hemnet visitors who plan to buy a home in the next six months, “How do you think property prices will develop where you live in the next six months?”. The survey has at least 600 responses and is conducted monthly. The first survey was conducted in September 2017.
About Hemnet
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