"The highest quarterly increases were recorded in Ireland (+6.2%), Latvia (+4.9%), and Croatia (+4.7%), and the largest falls in Slovenia (-1.1%), Romania and Malta (both -0.9%)," according to Eurostat's figures.
"Compared with the second quarter of 2014, house prices rose by 0.6% in the euro area and by 1.1% in the EU in the third quarter of 2014."
House prices rose by 0.5% in the euro area and by 2.3% in the EU in Q3 2014 compared with the same quarter of the previous year.
In Croatia, house prices in Q3 2014 went up 2.6% on the year.