The volume of investments fell by 12.1% in Hungary in the first quarter of 2025, compared to the corresponding period a year earlier, new data from KSH, the Hungarian statistics office, has found.
On a seasonally-adjusted basis, investment performance was down 11.8% in the first quarter, on a year-on-year comparison. Compared to the previous quarter, the value of investments was down 3.4%.
Reduction in investments
The sectors contributing most to this reduction in investment activity were manufacturing, as well as transportation and storage, KSH noted.
However the overall fall in investments was partly offset by increased activity in real estate and the energy industry.
Seasonally-adjusted investment volume indices indicate that the first quarter of 2025 stood at 88.2, where a value of 100 represents the same quarter the previous year.
This compares to an index of 85.4 in the final quarter of 2024, 87.4 in the third quarter, 86.4 in the second quarter, and 83.8 in the corresponding quarter at the start of last year.
The last time the investment volume index topped 100 was in the third quarter of 2023, when it stood at 101.8.
KSH‘s next report on investment activity in the Hungarian market is expected on 22 August. Read more here.
