Prices across 12 markets
What a square metre costs across Europe.
A square metre costs 2.6 times more in Austria than in Italy, and nothing about the buildings explains it. These are the 12 markets Seeki.eu indexes, measured the same way in every one: the median asking price per square metre on listings that are live right now. Start with the map, then drill into a country, a region or a street.
- sale listings with a price and floor area behind these medians
- 780,000+
- refreshed from live listings, not surveys
- Weekly
- the spread from Italy to Austria per m²
- €1,995 to €5,228
- Cheapest market: Italy
- €1,995/m²
- Priciest market: Austria
- €5,228/m²
- Cheapest to priciest
- 2.6×
- Listings behind the numbers
- 780,000+
26,000+ priced sale listings sit behind that median.
Apartments ask €5,982/m², houses €3,678.
The full spread across the 12 markets, measured the same way in each one.
Live sale listings that publish both an asking price and a floor area.
The index
12 markets, priciest first
Austria
€5,228/m²34,000+ listings
Alpine supply is tight and apartments carry the board: €5,982/m²/m² against €3,678 for houses.
Netherlands
€4,719/m²64,000+ listings
Dense, planned and short of land. Even Dutch houses ask €4,217/m².
Germany
€3,244/m²77,000+ listings
No single dominant capital, so this reads as a genuine national average. Houses ask €2,698/m².
Czechia
€2,871/m²40,000+ listings
Flats and houses split hard here: €4,103/m² against €1,946.
France
€2,832/m²100,000+ listings
Paris and the rural south inside one number. Apartments ask €4,090/m², houses €2,167.
Portugal
€2,766/m²41,000+ listings
Coast and interior barely trade in the same market: €3,425/m² for a flat, €1,822 for a house.
Belgium
€2,626/m²38,000+ listings
A house-heavy board, which is most of what holds the median down. Houses ask €2,223/m².
Slovakia
€2,574/m²22,000+ listings
A small board with a wide spread: €3,360/m² for a flat, €1,804 for a house.
Spain
€2,500/m²200,000+ listings
Coastal resale stock at scale. Flats ask €2,641/m², houses €2,242.
Poland
€2,160/m²99,000+ listings
Big-city flats against a wide countryside. A typical Polish home asks €155,959.
Hungary
€2,064/m²25,000+ listings
One capital and a house-heavy countryside. Houses ask €1,648/m².
Italy
€1,995/m²26,000+ listings
Old stock spread thin outside the northern cities. A house here asks €1,531/m².
The shape of it
Europe priced by the square metre
Distance is not the driver. Austria and Italy are on the same continent and measured the same way here, and the square metre still costs 2.6 times more in one than in the other.
What actually moves these numbers is on the next band down: what kind of homes are on the market, and whether one capital city is doing all the pulling.
Why the gap
Three things that move a country's number
What is on the market, not just where
Houses almost always cost less per square metre than apartments, so a country whose board is mostly houses reads cheap. The mix of what is listed moves a national median as far as the geography does.
One city can carry a whole country
A capital trading at several times the national rate turns a country median into two markets averaged together. That is why every country page here breaks its cities out before it says anything else.
Per metre and per home are different questions
A country can be dearer per square metre and cheaper per home, because the homes are smaller. Pick the measure that matches the question you are actually asking.
The corridor
From Italy to Austria, in one column
Every step on this ladder is the same measurement: median asking price divided by floor area, on listings that are live now. The distances between the rungs are real, not an artefact of 12 national methods.
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About these figures
Which European country has the cheapest property per square metre?
Of the 12 markets on this page, Italy at €1,995/m², followed by Hungary at €2,064/m² and Poland at €2,160/m². All three sit within €165 per square metre of each other, so the choice between them is about the kind of property you want rather than the headline rate.
Are these asking prices or sold prices?
Asking prices, from listings that are live right now. Recorded sale prices come from land registries months after the fact, which makes them accurate and late. Asking prices move first, and they read slightly high, because sellers start optimistic.
Do these numbers include rentals?
No. Every figure on this page is the sale market. Mixing a monthly rent into a purchase price produces a number that means nothing, so rentals are kept out of every median here.
How do I compare two countries fairly?
Start here, because the method is identical everywhere: median asking price divided by floor area, on published listings, rebuilt weekly. Then open a city on each side. National medians answer whether a country is expensive. Only city pages answer whether you can afford to live there.
Why only 12 countries?
Because these are the markets where Seeki.eu carries enough live inventory to publish a median honestly. A country with a few hundred listings would produce a number that swings every week and tells you nothing. When a new market reaches that depth, it gets a page.
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780,000+ priced listings across 12 countries, on a map, in your language and your currency.
Figures are medians of asking price divided by floor area across published sale listings in each country, refreshed weekly. Listing counts are rounded down. Seeki.eu is not a valuation service.