Slovenia home prices rise for 11th straight year

Prices of homes in Slovenia increased for the eleventh year in a row in 2025, going up by 5.8%.

Prices of commercial properties rose even more, by 8.5%, data released by the national Statistical Office show, CE Report quotes The Slovenia Times.

The biggest price hike in the housing market was recorded in new family houses. These rose by as much as 11.2% last year, compared to a 4.8% mark-up on second-hand family houses.

The prices of resale apartments rose by 8.4%, while those of new units in multi-apartment buildings dropped by 1.7%.

Biggest hike in Maribor

In the capital Ljubljana, where the prices are highest, those for second-hand flats were marked up by 6.8%, compared to 9.2% in the rest of the country. In the Maribor area alone those prices went up by 12.3%.

A total of €1.9 billion worth of residential properties were sold country-wide last year. Transactions in resale flats in Ljubljana accounted for €392 million. The number of such flats sold in the capital rose by a quarter on the year before.

In the last quarter of 2025 alone, housing prices rose by 5.1% on the previous quarter to 2.2 times their average in 2015.

Commercial property market remains slow

The prices of offices and other commercial premises such as shops increased by 8.5% in 2025, about half as much as they did the year before.

The prices of premises for retail and service businesses rose by 15.3%, while office prices went up by 1.2% after increasing significantly the year before.

Compared with the 2015 average, office prices soared by 76% and the prices of retail and service premises rose by 66%.

The volume of transactions picked up by 25% in 2025 after hitting rock bottom in 2024. It remained low though, roughly half the volume recorded before the Covid pandemic.

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