The Kosovo Agency of Statistics (ASK), in cooperation with the Kosovo Cadastral Agency, the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Kosovo, has for the first time published data on the Housing Property Price Index in Kosovo, KosovaPress reports.
Property prices have increased significantly from 2018 to 2025, especially in Pristina. At the national level, housing property prices, in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the second quarter of 2024, increased by 4.2 percent. The Pristina region recorded an increase of 6.5 percent, while other regions saw an increase of 0.7 percent.
“Today, for the first time, ASK is publishing an important report, not only for the country, but also for international institutions, because this index has been requested by the International Monetary Fund. This index is the result of close cooperation with the expertise of the Central Bank, the Kosovo Cadastral Agency and the Ministry of Finance. This index is in harmony with the IMF protocol. With this index, we fulfill the necessary indices required according to standard criteria, this is the eighth index we have produced in different fields,” said Kastrati.
The Director of the Department of Economic Statistics at ASK, Ilir Berisha, added that this index was requested by the government in 2023. Berisha said that there was also technical assistance from the International Monetary Fund, which assessed the possible data sources.Gëzim Ahmeti, a price statistics official, presented the price index.
“At the national level, housing property prices, in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the second quarter of 2024, increased by 4.2 percent, while in the Pristina region there was an increase of 6.5 percent, while in other regions there was an increase of 0.7 percent. We have presented annual changes in percentages, average changes starting from 2019 – 2.1 percent, 2020 – 0.2 percent due to the pandemic, 2021 – 2.4 percent, 2022 – 4.5 percent, 2023 – 3.7 percent, 2024 – 4 percent. Based on this chart, we see an upward trend from 2018 until 2024, which has reached an index value of 118.1 percent,” said Ahmeti.
Periods of decline were observed in: Q2 2020 (-3.0%); Q3 2023 (-1.0%); Q4 2020 (-0.7%); Q2 2019 (-0.6%) and in Q3 2024 (-0.4%). Meanwhile, Q3 2020 remained unchanged (0.0%).
The annual increase in percentage for other regions of the country, by quarters, was in: Q1 2023 (9.4%); Q4 2019 (9.0%); Q4 2022 (7.0%); Q3 2020 (6.0%); Q3 2022 (5.6%); Q2 2024 (5.3%); Q2 2022 (4.8%); Q4 2023 (4.7%); Q1 2020 (4.5%); Q2 2023 (4.5%); Q2 2019 (2.9%); Q3 2023 (3.3%); Q4 2024 (2.4%); Q1 2024 (2.3%); and Q1 2025 (2.2%).
A moderate positive increase was noted in Q1 2019 (1.6%) and in Q3 2024 (1.4%). Periods of decline were seen in: Q4 2020 (-6.5%); Q3 2019 (-2.6%); Q1 2021 (-2.3%); Q3 2021 (-2.3%); Q2 2021 (-0.7%) and in Q4 2021 (-0.1%). Whereas Q1 2022 remained unchanged (0.0%).
