Apartment prices have gone up 14% on average in 2025, if looking at the prices owners and developers are asking, but the percentage varies from one city to another and the surprise of the year is Craiova, with a 21% rise, the Imobiliare.ro Index shows.
Imobiliare.ro Finance, the loan broker part of Imobiliare.ro group, in 2024 intermediated loans worth EUR350 million, up 75% from 2023.
The housing market is starting the year with significantly higher prices than 12 months ago, after a 2024 above expectations, with Cluj hitting new highs and Craiova and Brasov marking an annual advance of around 20%, in line with Imobiliare.ro index.
After a 1.2% increase in November 2020, housing prices in Romania also had a positive evolution in December 2020. According to Imobiliare.ro index, the average asking prices for housing in Romania grew by 1.5% in December, from EUR1,351 to EUR1,371 per square meter.
Housing prices, demand, supply and real estate deals recovered visibly in the third quarter of 2020 after the lifting of pandemic-related restrictions, a market report by Imobiliare.ro showed Wednesday.