Lithuania real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend
- Average price: $3,607 / m²
- Gross rental yield: 4.06%
- 12-month price change (USD): 7.9%
- Net rental yield: 3.45%
- Transaction cost: 1.4%
- Price basis: national average
Residential property in Lithuania averages $3,607 per square metre, +7.9% in dollar terms over the last twelve months. That makes it the 62nd most expensive of the 131 markets in the set.
What a buyer pays in Lithuania
The $3,607 figure is a national average across all residential property types, which flattens a wide spread — the capital typically runs far above it and small towns far below. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 1.4% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $5,050 on top of the $360,698 purchase price. That is below the 9.5% median across the set, which shortens the time it takes for a purchase to break even. Inside Lithuania we also track Vilnius separately, where the average is $6,013 — 66.7% above the national figure.
What it earns
A square metre lets for about $12.2 a month. Against a purchase price of $3,607 per square metre that is 4.1% gross, before tax. Both figures come from the same source and the same period, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. It ranks 123rd of 151 markets by gross yield. Rental income is taxed at 15–15.7% — the rate is not a single number here. The 3.5% net figure we publish uses 15%.
How the tax works. Rent from Lithuanian property is taxed at 15% up to 12 average wages (EUR 27,745.80) a year and 20% above (25%/32% only at much higher incomes), per Global Property Guide Lithuania; PwC Lithuania (last reviewed 2026-10-01) lists lease income from Lithuanian property as taxable for non-residents. On USD 1,000-3,000 a month (about EUR 10,700-32,100 a year) that is 15.0-15.7%. Sources: GPG Lithuania; PwC Tax Summaries Lithuania.
Where the price sits against its own history
Prices are +80.9% over five years and +162.9% over ten in local terms.
Lithuania house price index, 2016–2025 (2016 = 100)
| Year | Index |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 100 |
| 2017 | 108.9 |
| 2018 | 116.9 |
| 2019 | 124.9 |
| 2020 | 133.9 |
| 2021 | 155.4 |
| 2022 | 185.1 |
| 2023 | 203.2 |
| 2024 | 223 |
| 2025 | 244.9 |
Rebased to 100 in 2016, the index stands at 244.9 in 2025. The series is in local currency, and the twelve-month numbers above show how much of that a dollar buyer actually keeps.
How this figure is built
The price figure for Lithuania is built from asking prices from listings. It was last refreshed on 2026-10-15. We rate our confidence in this market’s data low — treat the figures as indicative and check them before acting. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.
Sources: Numbeo Lithuania [https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Lithuania&displayCurrency=USD]; Eurostat prc_hpi_a LT [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_a?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=I15_A_AVG&geo=LT&sinceTimePeriod=2016&lang=en]; Eurostat prc_hpi_q RCH_A LT [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_q?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=RCH_A&sinceTimePeriod=2025-Q3&lang=en&geo=LT]; FX api.frankfurter.dev; PwC Tax Summaries LT [https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/lithuania/individual/taxes-on-personal-income]; GPG costs [https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/europe/lithuania/taxes-and-costs]. Snapshot: 2026-10-15.
Related markets: Vilnius