Price Drops in Belgium: How Often Do Sellers Lower Their Asking Price?
When a house stays online for weeks, every buyer wonders the same thing: will the price come down? Agencies rarely say, and a listing usually shows only today's price.
So we looked at the data. Imino follows the listings of Belgian agency websites over time, which means we can see when an asking price changes, and by how much. We followed 123,304 houses and apartments put up for sale between August 2025 and September 2026. Here is what happened to their prices, and, at the end, exactly how we counted.
1. The Longer a Listing Stays Online, the More Likely a Price Drop
| Still for sale after | Price lowered | By 5% or more | By 10% or more |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | 2.9% | 1.6% | 0.4% |
| 2 months | 7.3% | 4.4% | 1.3% |
| 3 months | 10.8% | 6.5% | 2.1% |
| 6 months | 16.3% | 10.7% | 4.2% |
After six months on the market, about one listing in six asks less than at the start. Price increases are rare: 1% of listings after two months, 2.3% after six.
2. How Big Is a Price Drop?
- The median drop is 6%, or €20,000: half of the reductions are smaller, half are larger.
- One drop in five reaches 10% or more.
- Most sellers lower their price only once. Barely 1.1% of all listings were reduced twice or more.
3. When Do Sellers Lower Their Price?
The first reduction comes after 47 days (median), and 61% of first reductions happen within the first two months.
A price drop usually goes with a slower sale. Listings sold or put under option without a reduction found a buyer after 34 days (median). Those with a reduction took 92 days. Among listings sold after three months or more, about one in six (16%) had lowered its price first.
4. The Coast, Brussels, Wallonia: Who Cuts the Most?
Listings still for sale after three months:
| Area | Price lowered | By 5% or more | By 10% or more | Median drop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coast | 11.5% | 6.9% | 1.7% | 5.6% |
| Brussels | 11.4% | 7.8% | 2.6% | 6.3% |
| Flanders (excluding the coast) | 11.3% | 6.1% | 1.6% | 5.2% |
| Wallonia | 10.7% | 7.7% | 3.4% | 7.4% |
- The coast is in line with the rest of the country, except for apartments: 12.3% were reduced there, against 9.1% elsewhere.
- Wallonia does not cut more often, but cuts deeper: a 7.4% median drop, and twice as many reductions of 10% or more as in Flanders.
- Houses are reduced more often than apartments (11.9% against 9.5%).
- Below €200,000, drops are the largest: 8% of these listings lost at least 5% within three months.
5. A Trend to Watch
Among listings put up for sale at the end of 2025, about 5.5% had a lower price two months later. For those put up for sale in August and September 2026, it is 11.5%, about twice as many. The curve is not smooth (April 2026 already reached 10.4%), and the number of agencies we follow grows every month, so read it as a signal rather than a proof.
6. What It Means for You as a Buyer
- A listing online for two months or more is an opening. The seller may already be thinking about a reduction.
- Check how long a listing has been online. Every listing on imino.be shows when it first appeared, and Premium members see its full price history.
- Save the listings you like. You receive an email when the price of a saved listing changes.
- Negotiate with figures. A 6% median drop is a realistic reference, not a rule: the condition of the property and the local market weigh more.
7. How We Counted
We would rather you trust these figures because you can check how they were made. Here is the method, step by step.
The listings
- Houses and apartments for sale on the websites of Belgian agencies, first seen by Imino between 1 August 2025 and 11 September 2026, and followed until 10 November 2026. That end date leaves every listing at least two months to be observed.
- Agency websites only. Before mid-2025, part of our data came from large portals. Mixing both sources would compare different things, so we left the portals out, as well as auction sites, where the displayed price goes up by design.
- One listing per property. When the same property is published by several agencies, it counts once.
- Listings without a price ("price on request") are left out.
What a price drop means
- We compare the asking price on a given day (30, 60, 90 or 180 days after Imino first saw the listing) with the first price we saw.
- A listing counts at "two months" only if it was still for sale that day: not under option, not sold, not removed. That is why the number of listings shrinks at each step (74,052 after one month, 7,171 after six).
- A listing leaves the market on the first of these dates: it goes under option, it is marked sold, or it disappears from the agency's website. A listing that disappears is counted as sold.
- All figures are simple shares of listings, with no weighting. The "median drop" is the median among reduced listings only.
What we removed, and why
- Obvious data errors: a price halved or doubled in a single step (a rent read as a sale price, a zero too many). 2,345 listings.
- Agencies added recently: when Imino starts following an agency, its whole stock appears at once, including homes for sale for months. Listings of an agency followed for less than 30 days are left out. 81,196 listings.
The limits
- These are asking prices, not sale prices. What a buyer finally pays is often lower, and only the notary knows it.
- The share of reductions is probably underestimated. A listing withdrawn and published again under a new reference at a lower price looks like a new listing to us.
Conclusion
Most sellers in Belgium keep their price. But the longer a listing stays online, the more the odds turn in the buyer's favour: one in nine is reduced after three months, one in six after six months, usually by around 6%. Watch how long the listings you like have been online, follow their price, and use these figures as a starting point for the discussion, not as a promise.