About 89,439 homes changed hands in Hungary in the first eight months of 2016, down 2.5pc from a year earlier, real estate broker Duna House has said, based on estimates. The eight-month number was up from less than 64,000 in 2014 and little over 55,000 in 2013. In August alone, 10,210 homes changed hands, down 7.7pc from August 2015, Duna House said.