Austria real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend
- Average price: $8,852 / m²
- Gross rental yield: 3.82%
- 12-month price change (USD): 1.3%
- Transaction cost: 10.1%
- Price basis: capital, prime district
Residential property in Austria averages $8,852 per square metre. In dollar terms the market has barely moved over the last twelve months (+1.3%). That makes it the 6th most expensive of the 70 markets in the set.
What a buyer pays in Austria
The $8,852 figure is an average for the prime districts of the capital only: it describes the capital's market, not the country as a whole — most of the country trades well below it. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 10.1% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $89,405 on top of the $885,200 purchase price. That is close to the 9.5% median across the set.
What it earns
Long-term letting returns about 3.8% gross on the purchase price, 63rd of 69 markets by gross yield. Measured against local earnings, the price-to-income ratio is 9.9 — that is how many years of an average local income one average home costs, and it says more about who can buy here than any price figure does.
How this figure is built
The price figure for Austria comes from the source we judge most reliable for this market. It was last refreshed on 2026-07-23. We rate our confidence in this market’s data high: the underlying series is official and current. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.
Sources: GPG sqm · globalpropertyguide.com · ec.europa.eu · numbeo.com. Snapshot: 2026-07-23.