In the capital, home prices climbed 21.3%.

In a month-on-month comparison, home prices edged up 1.1% nationwide and increased 1.4% in Budapest.

Ingatlan.com analyst László Balogh said the listings sample for the price gauge had grown by 20% from a year earlier and pointed to an increase in demand with the launch of the Home Start subsidized credit scheme for first-time home buyers.

The average price for a resale home listed in Budapest stood at HUF 1.36m/sqm in September. In county seats and cities with populations over 50,000, the average price reached HUF 771,000/sqm.