Yes, clearly. The latest full-year data, 2025 read into 2026, shows Walloon houses up 15.4% and apartments up 7.2% (source: Notaire.be, February 2026), on transaction volumes up around 16% to 17% in Liège and Namur. Prices rose on rising activity, the signature of a genuine upswing.
The market did not just edge up, it ran. Notaire.be reported a 15.4% rise in the median Walloon house price across 2025, taking it to 240,000 euros, with apartments adding 7.2%. Crucially, this happened alongside strong volumes: Fednot recorded roughly 16% to 17% more transactions in the Liège and Namur provinces. When both price and volume climb together, it points to real demand rather than a thin market bouncing on a few sales.
The main spark was policy. From 1 January 2025, registration duties on an own and sole home fell to 3% from 12.5%. That is a large saving on a purchase, and it did two things at once: it handed buyers extra budget and it pulled forward people who had been waiting. The counter-intuitive result is that a tax cut meant to help buyers largely translated into higher prices, because more competing demand met broadly the same stock.
Every province shared in the rise, though at different speeds, from Luxembourg province’s 17% at the top to steadier double digits elsewhere. There is no evidence in the latest figures of prices falling.
For sellers, that backdrop is favourable. The right question is no longer whether the market rose but whether your specific home is priced to capture that strength.
At a glance
- Houses, Wallonia 2025: +15.4%, median 240,000 euros (source: Notaire.be, Feb 2026).
- Apartments, Wallonia 2025: +7.2% (source: Notaire.be, Feb 2026).
- Transaction volumes, Liège and Namur: up about 16% to 17% (source: Fednot, 2026).
- Strongest provincial house rise: Luxembourg province, +17%.
- Main catalyst: 3% own-home registration reform from 1 January 2025.
- Direction: rising, not falling; a seller-favourable market.