The cost of renting one-room apartments has increased in almost all cities of Ukraine

Inna Kramarchuk
Inna Kramarchuk Journalist
The cost of renting one-room apartments has increased in almost all cities of Ukraine
The highest - in Odessa, here the price increase reached a record 55%.

This is reported by LUN.

Real estate in Odessa is rapidly becoming more expensive throughout 2025, with the cost of both rent and purchase increasing. Over the past 6 months, renting a one-room apartment has become 55% more expensive, now costing 13,200 hryvnias per month.

Prices for one-room apartments in Ternopil have surged by 41% — up to 14,800 hryvnias; in Cherkasy — by 38% to 13,800 hryvnias; in Poltava — by 28%, now such housing costs 11,500 hryvnias.

One-room apartments in Vinnytsia have increased in price by 26%, now renting for 14,500 hryvnias. The cost has risen by the same amount in Uzhgorod to 21,100 hryvnias. This city is setting a record for the price of one-room apartments in Ukraine.

The top three also include Kyiv and Lviv. In the capital, rent has increased by 21% over half a year — now, one-room apartments are rented on average for 20,000 hryvnias, and in Lviv — for 18,700 hryvnias, with prices rising by 10% here.

Over the past half-year, the cost of renting one-room apartments has not changed in 4 cities:

  • Chernivtsi - 14,700 hryvnias;
  • Chernihiv - 7,200 hryvnias;
  • Sums - 8,000 hryvnias;
  • Kharkiv - 4,000 hryvnias.
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