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How we work out Rent

Everything on this page is generated from the module itself, so it cannot say one thing here and another on the front page.

Built from the data file published on 2026-10-18 00:40 UTC.

What this measures

This is an index of change, not a price. There is no official euro-per-square-metre rent figure for Latvia or Estonia.

This is an index, not a price. It is set to 2015=100, and it deliberately carries no currency sign — it can tell you how fast something moved, never what it costs.

One figure stands for the whole country.

The figure on the front page is: Rents vs a year ago.

What it does not measure

  • An index describes movement, not level. It cannot answer "how much is it?" — only "how much did it change?".
  • This figure covers a whole period that has already ended. It is not the price today.

Where the numbers come from

Eurostat HICP monthly (prc_hicp_minr, CP041 actual rentals for housing)ec.europa.euOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 05:46 UTC · Source published 2026-10-16 · CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)
Eurostat House Price Index (prc_hpi_q) — PURCHASE, not rentec.europa.euOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 05:46 UTC · Source published 2026-10-01 · CC-BY-4.0 (European Commission reuse policy)
Statistics Lithuania S7R281_M9070366 — average rent, EUR/m2 per year, citiesosp-rs.stat.gov.ltOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 05:46 UTC · Statistics Lithuania open data
Statistics Latvia PCI021m consumer price index, ECOICOP ver.2 04.1 (Actual rentals for housing), annual rate of change — INDEX, not a price, and the same office that compiles Latvia's HICPdata.stat.gov.lvOfficial source · We read it 2026-10-17 05:46 UTC · Source published 2026-10-08 · CC0-1.0 (data.gov.lv mirror record 'osp', verified 2026-10-17)
What the kinds of source mean
  • Official — a statistics office, a regulator, or the exchange where the price was actually set.

How often it arrives, and what we do when it is late

The source publishes once a month.

A fresh figure is normally about 35 day(s) old when it reaches us, because statistics describe a period that has already ended.

The figure now on the site describes 2026-09-30 and is 18 day(s) old.

Past twice that age the module is marked as old automatically. It cannot mark itself as fresh — we compute the age from the date the data describes.

If a fetch fails, the last good figure stays up with its original date, the module is marked as not updated, and it visibly ages until the source publishes again. An old number never gets today's date.

We last ran this module at 2026-10-17 05:46 UTC.

Taxes

This is an index, so no tax rate applies to it. The tax is inside the prices the index is built from, and moves with them.

Units and conversions

History: 346 readings, from 1997-01-31 to 2026-09-30.

2 gap(s) in the history. Each one is listed in the data and none is filled in.

Some periods the source does publish are deliberately left out; the module names them and says why.

Country by country

CountryCoverageWhy
LatviaCovered—
LithuaniaCovered—
EstoniaCovered—

What the module itself flags

  • CP041 is actual rentals for housing. It measures how fast rents change, not what they are. No free official rent levels exist for Latvia or Estonia.
  • The old Eurostat tables (prc_hicp_manr, prc_hicp_midx) were frozen in December 2025. This uses the live prc_hicp_minr series instead.
  • The house price index shown for 2026-Q2 measures the cost of BUYING a home. It is a separate quarterly series — it is not rent.
  • Lithuanian rent levels: Lithuania only, euros per square metre a YEAR, city level only, annual data for 2025 — already 10 months old. No national figure is published.
  • Full monthly history from 1997-01-31 to 2026-09-30 (346 points). The rent index itself (2015 = 100) goes back to 1996.
  • The 1997-08–1998-06 annual rates describe the end of administered Soviet-era rents rather than a market, so they are left out of this line; the index for those months is published in full.
  • For 2026-09 the national index reads 1.1% and the harmonised one 1.1%, 0 percentage points apart. Both are compiled by the same office, so this is a second index, not a second source.
  • A national CPI and the EU-harmonised HICP cover different households and different spending by design, so a gap between them is expected, not a mistake.
  • Across 309 months the two lines give the same published figure 296 times (95.8%), and every month that differs differs by exactly 0.1 percentage points — the rounding step. This shows the figure reaches Eurostat unchanged; it does not show the figure is right.
  • The national index (309 monthly readings) is published beside the harmonised one, never merged into it.
  • The office's own terms page could not be retrieved. The open data record 'osp' for the same publisher states CC0-1.0, and that is all this page claims.
  • Listing portals (SS.lv, City24, Aruodas, KV.ee) are deliberately left out: asking prices from a self-selected sample are not signed rents.
  • 26 source value(s) fell outside the plausible range and were left out rather than shown.

The data itself

The same figures, machine-readable:

Everything the front page draws from, in one file:

Where this module stands right now

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Up to date.

2026-09-30 · 18 d · 2026-10-17 05:46 UTC