Czech Real Estate News — Housing Prices, Rent, Mortgages

Czechia is building more housing than it has in years: at the end of the third quarter, 7,200 new apartments were on sale in Prague, a quarter more than a year earlier. According to analysis by the developers Central Group, Skanska Resident

The Czech state will allocate 6 billion crowns to build affordable rental housing. The apartments are intended for workers in so-called essential professions, such as nurses, doctors, teachers or soldiers, and are to be rented out at prices

Mortgages in Czechia are getting more expensive again: at two major banks, ČSOB and Komerční banka, the rate on a three-year fixation is already 5.94%, just under the psychological 6% mark. According to a survey of bank offers on Oct. 27, m

Interest in tiny houses — miniature homes with carefully planned use of space — is growing in Czechia, but buyers applying for a mortgage may run into cautious banks. According to the Realiťák roku survey, demand for alternative housing has

A monthly mortgage payment in Prague can be 26,000 crowns higher than the rent for a comparable flat. A comparison of costs in six Czech cities showed that in Brno, Olomouc and Ostrava, too, buying a home with a loan does not work out cheap

Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerová has not ruled out a tax on investment property, but experts warn that such a tax would push rents up and hit tenants first of all. The Finance Ministry itself says the ruling coalition is not current

Thousands of investment apartments in Czechia are being bought but never lived in, and this is driving up housing prices. That was the claim made this week in the Chamber of Deputies by Jiří Mazánek, head of the anti-mafia unit, who describ

Czech developers intend to keep raising apartment prices, even though housing in Czechia is already among the least affordable in Europe. According to the new Deloitte Property Index, a new 70-square-metre apartment can now be bought for 16

By mid-2026, a record 23,300 flats were under construction in Prague. According to the consultancy iO Partners, the number rose by 43 percent over the year and by more than 12,000 compared with the first half of 2024. At the same time, buye

Nearly nine in ten Czech parents believe young people cannot afford to buy their own home without family help. That is the finding of a September Ipsos survey for Broker Consulting, which questioned 611 parents of children aged 18 to 40.Som

Czech Finance Minister Schillerová proposes raising the tax deduction limit on mortgage interest by 50,000 crowns for people under 36. Economists believe this will not make housing broadly more affordable.“I want the proposal to be adopted

The Spanish government tried to solve the housing crisis with tough decrees on rental housing, but parliament rejected them, and the country now faces early elections at the end of November. In Czechia, the author of a business column argue