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House prices during each national leader's tenure, worldwide

The leaders of 29 countries since 1991, ranked against one another by how house prices changed from their first day in office, each on its own country's figures. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1Fidesz Viktor OrbánHungary Prime Minister29 May 2010 – 9 May 2026 +317% Q1 2010 → Q1 2026+9.3%/yr
2Lab Tony BlairUnited Kingdom Prime Minister2 May 1997 – 27 Jun 2007 +198% Apr 1997 → May 2007+11.4%/yr
3HDZ Andrej PlenkovićCroatia Prime Minister19 Oct 2016 – now +149% Q3 2016 → Q2 2026+9.8%/yr
4PS António CostaPortugal Prime Minister26 Nov 2015 – 2 Apr 2024 +111% Q3 2015 → Q1 2024+9.2%/yr
5CDU Angela MerkelGermany Federal Chancellor22 Nov 2005 – 8 Dec 2021 +87.4% Q3 2005 → Q3 2021+4.0%/yr
6DP Xavier BettelLuxembourg Prime Minister5 Dec 2013 – 17 Nov 2023 +81.0% Q3 2013 → Q3 2023+6.1%/yr
7PSOE Pedro SánchezSpain Prime Minister2 Jun 2018 – now +74.5% Q1 2018 → Q2 2026+7.0%/yr
8VVD Mark RutteNetherlands Prime Minister14 Oct 2010 – 2 Jul 2024 +74.4% Q3 2010 → Q2 2024+4.1%/yr
9PiS Mateusz MorawieckiPoland Prime Minister11 Dec 2017 – 13 Dec 2023 +71.7% Q3 2017 → Q3 2023+9.4%/yr
10RE Andrus AnsipEstonia Prime Minister13 Apr 2005 – 26 Mar 2014 +71.6% Q1 2005 → Q4 2013+6.4%/yr

Showing 10 of 136 tenures.

Sorted by total, highest first. Rows measure house prices before inflation: a price index, an average price or a typical home value; each place is read from its own statistics office's series (the row's chart names it), so a change is set against the place's own first day, never against another country's level. Every row is indexed to the last month, quarter or count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it). Changes are per cent; "per year" compounds them. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. Data as of Sep 2026.

Sources: the official statistics of each region (FRED, Statistics Canada, Eurostat, the ONS, e-Stat, the OECD, Statistics Korea, IBGE, INDEC, INEGI, the ABS, BPS, MoSPI, the World Bank and more, listed on each region's page), GISCO, Natural Earth, BIG, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy