If in the summer of this year one-room apartments in Uzhhorod were rented on average for 22.5 thousand hryvnias, and two-room apartments — for 36 thousand hryvnias, then now the price tags are 35.3 and 46 thousand hryvnias, respectively.

This is stated in LUN data, writes Minfin.

Back in August of this year, the median percentage of wages going to rent in Uzhhorod did not exceed 75%, and as of November it reached 114%.

Renting private houses in Uzhhorod has risen in price by 65.8% over the past six months — to 62.2 — 103 thousand hryvnias. In annual terms, the dynamics are approaching 143% — a record in Ukraine.

“If a few months ago a good one-room apartment with renovations in Uzhhorod could be rented for $700, now they are asking $1,200–1,300 for the same kind of place. There are cases when owners deliberately evict tenants with long-term contracts and list the properties for rent again — at a higher price,” says Andrii Romanov, head of the real estate agency “KyivDimServis.”

For example, a one-room apartment is offered for $1,000 per month in a new residential complex in the center of Uzhhorod, near the embankment. For $870, one can rent a two-room apartment in a brick building completed in 2015, with individual gas heating. A one-room apartment of 50.5 square meters in a residential complex with designer renovation and individual gas heating is listed at $1,100.

A two-room apartment in an old "tsarist-era" building with individual heating and designer renovation near Bozdoskyi Park is offered for rent at $2,000. And a similar one in the "Budapest" residential complex — at $1,800.

A 120-square-meter house with 4 rooms is listed for $1,500, while a similar one in the village of Mynai near Uzhhorod is listed for $2,500.

Rental property price tags in Uzhhorod and its suburbs are perhaps the highest in Ukraine, especially considering the price-to-quality ratio (housing that owners themselves position as elite and "luxurious" is far from always actually being so).

Yurii Martyniuk explained why real estate in Uzhhorod is so expensive.

"Uzhhorod is a small city. And it so happened that even before the war, there were several times fewer new construction projects here than in any other regional center of the country. The main focus was on private construction in the suburbs.

With the start of the war, demand for rent, as well as for the sale of housing in Uzhhorod, began to grow. Developers, having caught this trend, began to launch more projects, but for now most of them are not yet ready or have not managed to enter the rental market. Therefore, the supply of rental apartments significantly lags behind demand. For example, in Lviv, there have never been such problems with an imbalance of supply and demand, so prices, although they are rising, are not rising as much as in Uzhhorod," says Yuriy Martynyuk, director of the Association of Western Ukrainian Developers.

Romanov also added that Zakarpattia, as a region where there is effectively neither a curfew nor air raids, and the electricity situation is much better than in central Ukraine, attracts many displaced persons, in particular Kyiv residents.

Some have already managed to buy real estate in Uzhhorod and are listing it for rent, while others are looking for rental housing. At the same time, people are willing to pay. Potential renters are stating their expected budget for housing — $1,000–1,500 per month.

This allows owners to raise the rent almost every month. Moreover, most likely, apartments will continue to become more expensive.

By winter, realtors predict an increase in the price of rental housing in Uzhhorod by at least 10-15%, while in the rest of the regional centers