New apartment prices keep soaring: Zagreb reaches 3,518 euros per square metre

New apartment prices in Croatia continued to rise in the first half of 2026, with Zagreb recording an average of 3,518 euros per square metre.

The figure in the capital was 18.9% higher than a year earlier and 2.6% above the second half of 2025, according to data from Croatia’s State Bureau of Statistics, known as DZS. Nationwide, the average price reached 2,994 euros per square metre, an annual increase of 8.7% and a 4.6% rise from the previous six-month period.

Prices also increased outside Zagreb. New apartments in other settlements averaged 2,754 euros per square metre, up 9.7% from the first half of the previous year and 5% from the second half of 2025.

Excluding the socially supported housing program, apartments sold by companies and other legal entities averaged 3,012 euros per square metre nationwide. In Zagreb, that average reached 3,554 euros, up 19.9% year on year. In other settlements, it rose 9.4% to 2,766 euros.

Croatia sold 1,618 new apartments in the first half of 2026, including 530 in Zagreb and 1,088 elsewhere. Fifteen were part of the socially supported housing program, whose average price was 1,410 euros per square metre. That was 13.3% higher than a year earlier but 13.1% lower than in the second half of 2025.