Home prices in the capital climbed 9.1%.

Price growth continued to accelerate, ingatlan.com said.

Prices of homes in Budapest averaged HUF 1.07 mln/sqm at the start of October but were as high as HUF 1.73 mln/sqm in central District V.

Home prices in Hungary’s second most populous city, Debrecen (225 km east of Budapest) averaged HUF 839,000/sqm.

At the other end of the spectrum, homes were cheapest in Salgótarján (110 km northeast of Budapest) at HUF 282,000/sqm.

Next year, ingatlan.com augurs a 10-15% increase in home prices.