Invest in Romania

Why big-portal figures don’t apply here

When you read “average yield in Romania”, you’re almost always reading about Bucharest — and often about a mix of neighbourhoods you won’t buy. In Alba Iulia, Sighișoara, Șelimbăr or Cisnădie, prices and rents move differently: smaller stock, different liquidity, different buyers. Here we publish only what we can calculate from active Locuit listings, on one comparable segment: 2-room apartments, asking prices in euro. Not a national average and not a promise — a snapshot of our inventory on the verification date.

Yields by locality

LocalityMedian price(2 rooms)Median rent(2 rooms)Gross yieldListings (S / R)Open calculator with these values
Alba Iulia82,000 €365 € /mo5.34%91 / 26Calculate
Târgu Mureș104,000 €440 € /mo5.08%95 / 121Calculate
Zalău77,000 €325 € /mo5.06%29 / 6Calculate
Iași107,400 €440 € /mo4.92%27 / 6Calculate
Șelimbăr110,500 €420 € /mo4.56%80 / 27Calculate
Pitești79,250 €300 € /mo4.54%30 / 5Calculate
Giroc97,800 €370 € /mo4.54%22 / 11Calculate
Sibiu103,500 €380 € /mo4.41%275 / 171Calculate
Brașov125,500 €450 € /mo4.30%59 / 17Calculate
Cluj-Napoca168,500 €600 € /mo4.27%92 / 164Calculate
Craiova114,900 €400 € /mo4.18%55 / 45Calculate
Timișoara116,464 €399 € /mo4.11%67 / 39Calculate
Oradea139,450 €400 € /mo3.44%18 / 13Calculate

Calculated on 2 rooms apartments — the most comparable segment across cities. Prices are asking prices, not transaction prices, and yield is gross: it does not subtract taxes, repairs or vacant months. For your own figure, use the calculator.

From active Locuit.ro listings · checked October 23, 2026 · EUR only

Bucharest is not in the table: differences between neighbourhoods are so large that a single city figure would mislead. We’ll add it when we have enough listings to calculate by district.

Short-term stays

On paper it’s simple: nightly rate × occupancy − platform fee − cleaning. In practice, occupancy and operating costs decide everything — and we don’t yet have enough listings with a nightly price filled in to publish aggregate figures. When we do, they’ll show here. Until then, simulate the scenario in the calculator’s “Short-term stays” mode.

Calculator — short-term stays

Homes in rural localities — price, no yield

In rural areas, rental listings barely exist. We don’t invent yields. We publish asking prices by county (median + the middle half of listings) where we have at least 15 houses for sale in rural localities — including communes near cities, not only remote villages.

CountyMedian priceMiddle half(p25 – p75)Listings
Alba199,000 €130,000 € – 280,000 €320See listings
Arad127,500 €80,500 € – 207,250 €22See listings
Argeș149,900 €56,950 € – 189,900 €51See listings
Bacău131,900 €126,425 € – 155,775 €16See listings
Bihor122,500 €76,625 € – 170,038 €18See listings
Brașov226,500 €208,500 € – 321,975 €30See listings
Cluj224,950 €190,613 € – 306,243 €24See listings
Constanța168,000 €105,000 € – 335,000 €17See listings
Dâmbovița143,250 €89,250 € – 164,750 €22See listings
Dolj179,990 €149,000 € – 229,990 €17See listings
Giurgiu140,000 €125,000 € – 185,000 €21See listings
Iași178,995 €141,400 € – 320,000 €52See listings
Mureș185,000 €131,500 € – 256,500 €143See listings
Prahova100,000 €67,800 € – 165,000 €49See listings
Satu Mare100,000 €66,500 € – 149,000 €195See listings
Sibiu205,495 €150,000 € – 269,500 €206See listings
Suceava170,000 €128,750 € – 211,250 €44See listings
Timiș193,500 €157,500 € – 238,750 €62See listings
Vâlcea142,500 €87,500 € – 192,000 €28See listings

From active Locuit.ro listings · checked October 23, 2026 · EUR only

Ilfov is not listed: rural on paper, but in practice Bucharest’s belt, with suburban prices. We don’t mix it with the rest.

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Calculate with your figures

The table uses asking price. The calculator adds acquisition costs, mortgage, occupancy — and shows the formula.

Yield calculator

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