# SRC: Estate agency rent surveys (Eurostat, 2003-2019) * Every year, the EU carries out a survey among real estate agents about rent prices in European capitals and a few additional cities as part of work to determine the salaries of its international officials: * The "(r)eal estate agents are asked to provide the monthly rent for various types of accommodation, excluding charges and utilities, for an unfurnished property. The quality of the accommodation should be good to very good, but not luxurious". * Taking that caveat into consideration, that the housing surveyed "should be good to very good", and therefore not very representative of how most people actually live, these surveys can provide a useful snapshot of the differences and the evolution of rent prices across European cities over time. * --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://housing-base.journalismarena.eu/access-to-housing/data-sources-sets-and-visualisations/src-estate-agency-rent-surveys-eurostat-2003-2019.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.