Prices of new and nearly new apartments and the number of transactions

9.4 % yoy
Year-over-year growth
4 618.0
Number of transactions

Comment by the Czech Bar Association

The average transaction price for new and nearly new apartments in the Czech Republic in Q1 2026 was 141,000 CZK per square meter. This represented 124% of the average price in 2022, while the ratio for 2025 was 118%. This occurred amid 4,618 transactions in Q1 2026, compared to an average of 5,494 transactions per quarter in 2025. In Q1 2026, these transaction volumes reached 122% compared to Q1 2022, and for the entire year of 2025, they reached 182% compared to 2022.

Prices of new and nearly new apartments and the number of transactions

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Source of primary data

Flat Zone

Category

Real Estate Prices

Data frequency

quarterly

Note

Average transaction price per square meter.
According to Flat Zone’s methodology, the “new and nearly new apartments” category includes first-time sales of new apartments (in the developer-client relationship; at the time of sale according to the price list) and resales of new apartments (so-called nearly new apartments in a client-to-client relationship; at the time of registration in the real estate cadastre) built since 1995. Apartments built before 1995 fall into the "older apartments" category.

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Comments

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