Slovenia real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend
- Average price: $4,530 / m²
- Gross rental yield: 4.07%
- 12-month price change (USD): 5.2%
- Net rental yield: 3.15%
- Transaction cost: 2.8%
- Price basis: national average
Residential property in Slovenia averages $4,530 per square metre, +5.2% in dollar terms over the last twelve months. That makes it the 45th most expensive of the 131 markets in the set.
What a buyer pays in Slovenia
The $4,530 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 2.8% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $12,685 on top of the $453,020 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 Slovenia we also track Ljubljana separately, where the average is $6,486 — 43.2% above the national figure.
What it earns
A square metre lets for about $15.4 a month. Against a purchase price of $4,530 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 120th of 151 markets by gross yield. Rental income is taxed at 22.5%, which takes the yield down to 3.2% net. The 0.9-point difference between the gross and net figure is the part most listing sites leave out.
How the tax works. Rental income is taxed at a final flat 25% (PwC Slovenia, last reviewed 2026-07-15) on rent reduced by a 10% normalised expense deduction (or documented actual maintenance costs), i.e. 22.5% of gross rent, the same for residents and non-residents (Global Property Guide Slovenia). Sources: PwC Tax Summaries Slovenia; GPG.
Where the price sits against its own history
Prices are +56.7% over five years and +118.9% over ten in local terms.
Slovenia house price index, 2016–2025 (2016 = 100)
| Year | Index |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 100 |
| 2017 | 108.3 |
| 2018 | 117.7 |
| 2019 | 125.6 |
| 2020 | 131.4 |
| 2021 | 146.6 |
| 2022 | 168.2 |
| 2023 | 180.4 |
| 2024 | 194 |
| 2025 | 208.1 |
Rebased to 100 in 2016, the index stands at 208.1 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 Slovenia 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 Slovenia [https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Slovenia&displayCurrency=USD]; Eurostat prc_hpi_a SI [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_a?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=I15_A_AVG&geo=SI&sinceTimePeriod=2016&lang=en]; Eurostat prc_hpi_q RCH_A SI [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=SI]; GURS 2025 report [https://www.e-prostor.gov.si/fileadmin/Podrocja/Trg_vrednosti_nep/Trg_nepremicnin/Porocila_o_trgu_nepremicnin/2025/Letno_porocilo_za_leto_2025.pdf]; FX api.frankfurter.dev; PwC Tax Summaries SI [https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/slovenia/individual/taxes-on-personal-income]; GPG costs [https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/europe/slovenia/taxes-and-costs]. Snapshot: 2026-10-15.
Related markets: Ljubljana