According to a recently published report by Deutsche Bank, the highest increase in rents for three-room apartments in European city centers between 2020 and 2025 was recorded in Southern and Eastern Europe, reaching 206%. These figures are from a study covering 67 cities worldwide, including 28 in Europe.
According to Eurostat, housing prices in the EU rose by 27.3% quarter-on-quarter (from Q1 2020 to Q1 2025), while rents rose by 12.5% between June 2020 and June 2025. However, growth exceeded the average in central city areas.
The most expensive and cheapest cities in 2025:
The highest rental growth (2020–2025):
Overall, the findings show that Southern and Eastern Europe have lost their relative affordability in terms of housing rentals, while the major financial and political centers of Western and Northern Europe remain the most expensive, but affordability in Eastern Europe is declining rapidly.
According to the results of 2024, JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya paid UAH 22.28 billion in rent payments to the consolidated budget of the country.
According to the company’s website, 5% of this amount, or UAH 1.114 billion, went to the local and regional budgets in the regions where the company produces hydrocarbons.
As for the distribution of funds, Kharkiv region received UAH 580 million, Poltava region – UAH 441.3 million, Lviv region – UAH 45 million, Dnipropetrovs’k region – UAH 22.5 million, and others – UAH 25.2 million.
As reported earlier, in January-September 2024, Ukrgasvydobuvannya increased commercial gas production by 6.5% compared to the same period in 2023, up to 10.4 bcm, and liquid hydrocarbons by 26%, up to 372 thousand tons.
In 2023, the company produced 13.224 bcm of commercial gas, which is 0.679 bcm more than in 2022.
NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine owns 100% of Ukrgasvydobuvannya shares.
JSC Ukrgasvydobuvannya transferred UAH 13.88 billion of rent payments to the consolidated budget of the country based on the results of its activities from January to August 2023.
“Of this amount, 5%, or UAH 693.9 million, will go to the budgets of local and regional levels in 11 regions where the company produces hydrocarbons,” the company said in a press release.
In particular, Kharkiv region will receive UAH 336.9 million, Poltava region – UAH 292.21 million, Lviv region – UAH 31.8 million, Dnipropetrovs’k region – UAH 18.38 million, and other regions – UAH 14.62 million.
“The amount of rent payments is calculated according to the sale price of Ukrgasvydobuvannya’s natural gas in favor of Naftogaz of Ukraine.
The owner of the building that houses the headquarters of American Twitter Inc. in San Francisco has sued the company, accusing it of non-payment of rent.
The lawsuit, filed by SRI Nine Market Square LLC, says the site breached its lease agreement in December by failing to pay a monthly rent of about $3.4 million, prompting it to receive a notice of default on its contractual obligations on Dec. 5. The owner of the building received its due amount through a line of credit that Twitter used as a security deposit.
Meanwhile, the company “again breached the lease agreement by failing to pay monthly rent and additional rent under the agreement in January 2023″ of about $3.428 million, the lawsuit notes. SRI Nine Market Square received another $266,000 through a line of credit, so Twitter currently owes $3.16 million.
SRI Nine Market Square wants the company to increase the credit limit to $10 million due to the terms of the agreement, which provide for such an option in the event of a change in its management. In late October, Twitter was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk. The lawsuit says the site refuses to do so.
In addition, the owner of offices in the center of London Crown Estate filed a similar lawsuit, writes MarketWatch. They confirmed that they went to court, but did not specify how much Twitter did not pay.
In December, foreign media reported that the company had stopped paying rent for a number of offices as part of cost-cutting measures after Musk took over. In early January, another landlord in San Francisco sued Twitter.
