Romanian flat prices and rents: data for journalists
A flat for sale in București has a median asking price of €130,792. apartamente.org is an independent Romanian site, owned by no portal, agency or developer. Every night it reads the adverts on Romania's property portals and counts each flat once, however many agencies and portals advertise it. Figures as of 26 October 2026.
The October 2026 figures are recalculated every night while the month is open. Free to quote in whole or in part, with attribution (licence CC BY 4.0): “apartamente.org Index, October 2026”, with a link to https://apartamente.org/raport-piata/2026-10. This page in Romanian: /presa.
The first edition of the apartamente.org Index, for October 2026, comes out on Tuesday 3 November 2026: the share of flats asked under their zone's median price and the share of adverts whose price fell, for the whole country, by city and by county. The index comes out on the first Tuesday of every month, for the month before.
Figures you can quote
“A flat for sale in București has a median asking price of €130,792 (€2,207/m²), counted once per distinct flat and recalculated every night.”
“Of the ten largest markets, Cluj-Napoca is the most expensive per square metre: €3,173/m², against €2,207/m² in București.”
“The 448,275 active sale adverts in 80 cities describe 158,379 distinct flats: the rest are the same flat advertised more than once.”
“The highest median rent in the country is in Voluntari: €852 a month (€12.9/m²).”
“On the same flats over 30 days, 10.4% of sellers cut their asking price (by a median 3.8%) and 15.7% of landlords lowered the rent.”
For sale: the median asking price in the 10 largest markets
| City | Distinct flats | Median price | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| București | 46,508 | €130,792 | 2,207 |
| Cluj-Napoca | 11,451 | €173,000 | 3,173 |
| Timișoara | 9,376 | €108,137 | 1,970 |
| Iași | 8,014 | €99,000 | 1,923 |
| Brașov | 5,987 | €123,289 | 2,230 |
| Florești | 5,037 | €116,500 | 2,105 |
| Sibiu | 4,713 | €119,500 | 2,011 |
| Constanța | 4,599 | €109,000 | 1,932 |
| Popești-Leordeni | 3,866 | €102,936 | 1,858 |
| Oradea | 3,367 | €105,000 | 1,859 |
For rent: the median asking rent in the 10 largest markets
| City | Distinct flats | Median rent (month) | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| București | 40,109 | €620 | 11.0 |
| Iași | 9,619 | €400 | 8.6 |
| Cluj-Napoca | 8,932 | €570 | 10.4 |
| Timișoara | 6,756 | €420 | 8.3 |
| Brașov | 4,202 | €500 | 9.2 |
| Sibiu | 3,478 | €415 | 7.6 |
| Constanța | 3,364 | €550 | 9.3 |
| Ploiești | 2,810 | €416 | 7.7 |
| Voluntari | 2,462 | €852 | 12.9 |
| Oradea | 2,312 | €390 | 7.0 |
Studies, with the data to download
- October 2026: asking rents fall in all 16 large cities (in Romanian; measured on 26 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23689696). Between 26 September and 26 October 2026, 15.7% of landlords cut the asking rent (12.3% the month before), and on the same flats the mean asking rent fell in all 16 cities measured. For sale, 10.4% of sellers cut their price; the mean asking price rose in Bucharest (+0.54%) and its four Ilfov towns and fell in 31 of 40 cities.
- House or flat: the price in every county (in Romanian; measured on 13 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337515). The median house for sale costs €185,000, 44.5% more than a three-room flat, but 26% less per m²; Bucharest is the only county where a house costs more per m² than a flat.
- What the Bucharest metro is worth (in Romanian; measured on 13 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337541). In the same neighbourhood and with the same number of rooms, flats within 500 m of a metro station are asked 15.9% more per m² than flats over 1 km away; rents 7.2% more. 66,341 flats.
- How many years of salary a flat costs (in Romanian; measured on 13 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337548). A median two-room flat costs 10.7 years of the county's average net salary in Cluj-Napoca, 9.5 in Brașov, 6.8 in Bucharest, where salaries are highest, and 4.8 in Reșița. 40 county seats, INS salaries.
- Student rents in 18 university cities (in Romanian; measured on 13 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337552). A studio rents for a median €400 a month in Bucharest, €380 in Cluj-Napoca, €330 in Iași and €269 in Timișoara; shared two ways, a two-room flat comes to €300 a person in Bucharest.
- How much of the supply is new-build (in Romanian; measured on 13 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337565). Of the flats for sale that state a build year, 37.5% were built in 2020 or later and 39.7% before 1990; Bucharest has the newest supply of the large cities (44.1%), Galați, Bacău and Brăila under 10%.
- What an extra room costs, in 42 cities (in Romanian; measured on 13 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337567). Going from a studio to a two-room flat costs €44,000 more in Bucharest and €52,990 more in Cluj-Napoca; a studio costs more per m² than a two-room flat in 24 of 42 cities.
- Rents +39.7% in the official CPI, −1% on adverts (in Romanian; measured on 7 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337593). Official statistics show rents 39.7% higher than a year earlier; on 24,801 rental flats followed for a month, the asking rent fell by 1.05% on average and 14.8% of landlords cut it. The exchange rate made a euro-priced rent 5.5% dearer in lei in a year.
- How many portals advertise the same flat (in Romanian; measured on 7 October 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337595). Of 449,852 active sale adverts, 52.5% repeat a flat already advertised elsewhere; 45% of the flats for sale are on at least two portals and 8% on five or more.
- How much of the salary goes on rent (in Romanian; measured on 29 September 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337600). The median rent of a two-room flat takes 29% of the county's average net salary in Reșița and 53% in Constanța and Tulcea; 46% in Cluj-Napoca and 42% in Bucharest. 34 county seats, INS 2025 salaries.
- How often sellers cut their asking price (in Romanian; measured on 25 September 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337602). Of 80,122 flats for sale on the market for at least a month, 11.4% cut their asking price between 25 August and 25 September 2026, by a median 3.7%.
- Ground floor, top floor, semi-basement (in Romanian; measured on 25 September 2026; CSV; DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23337608). Top-floor flats are asked 5.8% less per m² than middle floors in the same zone, ground floors 1.4% less and semi-basements 20.1% less; in new blocks the gap almost disappears. 56,208 flats.
Method, in brief
The adverts on the portals we read are grouped across portals (price, floor area, rooms, location and text compared within tolerances), so a flat advertised several times counts once. City prices are medians over distinct flats, one asking price per flat, not means, so a few penthouses or a mistyped price do not move them. The prices are asking prices, not transaction prices, which nobody publishes in Romania. The share of sellers who cut their price compares the asking price today with the last one before the window began, for the same flats, on the portals that update a price on every visit. Changes in the median €/m² are left out of the October 2026 figures: after the correction of 14 October 2026 to how adverts are grouped, we have not yet confirmed that the count of distinct flats has settled, and without that a change could measure our catalogue rather than prices. The full method, in Romanian: metodologie.
How to cite
<a href="https://apartamente.org/raport-piata/2026-10">apartamente.org Index, October 2026</a>A study is cited by its own page; every study page has its CSV.
Outlets that have used the figures
- Radio România Târgu Mureș, 9 octombrie 2026 (in Romanian): „Piața imobiliară din Târgu Mureș, în cădere liberă”
- Revista Biz, 7 octombrie 2026 (in Romanian): „Piața imobiliară se temperează: mai mulți proprietari reduc chiriile, iar prețurile de vânzare stagnează”
Contact and data requests
Write to contact@apartamente.org, in English or Romanian. We send the figures for a city, a neighbourhood or a type of flat at no cost, with the method behind them.