Over 95% of Romanian citizens were, in 2016, owners of the homes they lived in. According to the Eurostat report, this is the highest percentage of homeowners recorded among EU member states.<\/p>\n
In Romania, the percentage of citizens who own the homes they live in was 95.6% in 2016, the highest percentage in the European Union. Romania is followed by Croatia and Lithuania, where 89.9% of citizens own their own home, and Slovakia, where the percentage is 89.5%.<\/p>\n
At the opposite end are Austria, Denmark, and Germany. Thus, while 62% of Austrians own a home, the percentage of Danes who are owners is 58.6%, while Germany occupied the last place in the ranking in 2016. There, less than half of the country’s citizens (49.8%) owned a property in 2016. <\/p>\n
Only one-third of foreign citizens in the EU are owners<\/p>\n
According to the report published by Eurostat, at the European Union level, the average of citizens who are legal owners is 70.6%. On the other hand, the percentage of foreigners who own their own home is only 30%.<\/p>\n
The highest percentage of foreign citizens owning a property was recorded in 2016 in Lithuania – 88%, Estonia – 85.4% and Croatia – 82.4%.<\/p>\n
Slovenia (19.1%), Austria (19.9%) and Italy (20.7%) are the European Union states where only a small part of foreign citizens managed to purchase a home.<\/p>\n
Almost all Romanians over 55 are owners<\/p>\n
The percentage of Romanians aged between 55 and 64 who owned a property was 98.5% in 2016, according to the Eurostat report.<\/p>\n
However, the same report indicates that almost half of Romanian citizens (48.8%) lived in overcrowded housing in 2016, while the EU average was 16.3%. This problem was almost non-existent in Cyprus, where only 1.7% of citizens lived in overcrowded housing, and Belgium, where the percentage of citizens who did not have enough space was 2.3%.<\/p>\n
15% of Romanians barely cope with expenses<\/p>\n
Romania is on the list of the seven EU member states where over 10% of citizens are burdened by housing costs.<\/p>\n
Thus, in 2016, this problem was faced by citizens in Greece (39.6%), Bulgaria (18.4%), Denmark (16.3%), Germany (15.2%), Romania (14.1%), the United Kingdom (12.1%) and the Netherlands (11.2%).<\/p>\n