Where in Ukraine Is It Cheaper to Buy a One-Bedroom Apartment: How the Market Has Changed in 2026
OLX Real Estate analyzed how the supply of one-bedroom apartments in Ukrainian cities has changed over the past year—both in the resale market and in the long-term rental segment.
In most of the cities analyzed, the number of listings decreased in both segments when comparing July 2026 to July 2025. However, there are exceptions: in Chernivtsi, the supply increased for both sales and rentals, while in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Lutsk, and Ivano-Frankivsk, the number of apartments available for rent increased, which may be explained by a reduction in supply on the secondary market.
Sales of one-bedroom apartments: supply increased only in Chernivtsi
Among the cities analyzed, Chernivtsi was the only one where the number of listings for one-bedroom apartments for sale on the secondary market increased over the year. In July 2026, there were 5% more such listings on the platform than a year earlier.
In all other cities, the number of listings decreased. The most significant drop was in Ternopil, at 42%. In Khmelnytskyi and Cherkasy, the decline was 41% in both cities. A 35% decrease in listings was recorded in three cities at once: Vinnytsia, Rivne, and Uzhhorod. Next are Zhytomyr (-34%), Zaporizhzhia (-33%), Kropyvnytskyi (-31%), and Sumy (-29%).
In Dnipro and Kherson, the number of listings decreased by 28%. In Mykolaiv, the decline was 24%. Also, as of July 2026, the number of listings in Lviv, Kyiv, and Chernihiv decreased by 18%. In Lutsk, the supply decreased by 14%; in Poltava, by 10%; in Ivano-Frankivsk, by 7%; and in Kharkiv, by 4%.
Among cities with negative trends, the smallest decline was recorded in Odesa—a 2% decrease in the number of listings for one-bedroom apartments on the resale market.
The supply of one-bedroom apartments on the resale market declined over the year in nearly all of the cities analyzed, though the extent of the decline varied significantly—from 2% in Odesa to over 40% in Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, and Cherkasy.
Long-term rentals: Supply of one-bedroom apartments increased in five cities
According to OLX Real Estate, the situation in the long-term rental market is somewhat different. While positive trends in the sales segment were recorded in only one city, the number of listings for long-term rentals of one-bedroom apartments increased over the past year in five cities.
The largest increase was in Lutsk, at 23%. In Chernivtsi, the number of listings increased by 10%; in Kyiv, by 6%; in Vinnytsia, by 4%; and in Ivano-Frankivsk, by 3%.
In the other cities analyzed, the supply decreased. The most significant decline was in Khmelnytskyi, at 48%. In Uzhhorod, the number of listings decreased by 43%; in Rivne, by 34%; in Zhytomyr, by 33%; and in Zaporizhzhia, by 31%.
In Kharkiv and Kropyvnytskyi, the decline was 29% in both cities. In Mykolaiv, the number of listings decreased by 28%. A 26% decrease in listings was recorded in Cherkasy and Dnipro. In Sumy, the number of listings decreased by 24%, in Ternopil by 18%, and in Lviv by 15%.
A less noticeable decline occurred in Chernihiv (11%), Kherson (8%), Poltava (4%), and Odesa (3%).
Sales and Rentals: In Which Cities Do the Trends Align?
In most of the cities analyzed, the trends in the secondary market and long-term rentals align: the number of both apartments for sale and units for rent decreased over the year.
The figures are particularly similar in several cities. In Rivne, the number of one-bedroom apartments for sale decreased by 35%, and for rent by 34%. In Zhytomyr, the figures are -34% and -33%; in Zaporizhzhia, -33% and -31%; and in Kropyvnytskyi, -31% and -29%.
A similar trend is evident in Khmelnytskyi, where the supply of units for sale fell by 41% and those for rent by 48%, and in Uzhhorod—by 35% and 43%, respectively. In Dnipro, the figures decreased by 28% and 26%, and in Lviv—by 18% and 15%.
At the same time, in some cities, the two segments are moving in opposite directions. In Kyiv, the number of one-bedroom apartments for sale fell by 18%, while the supply of long-term rentals rose by 6%. In Vinnytsia, the figures were -35% versus +4%; in Lutsk, -14% versus +23%; and in Ivano-Frankivsk, -7% versus +3%.
Chernivtsi stands out—it is the only city among those analyzed where supply increased in both segments: by 5% in the resale market and by 10% in long-term rentals.
In Odesa, however, both segments saw only minimal changes over the year: the number of one-bedroom apartments for sale decreased by 2%, and in the long-term rental market, by 3%.
Thus, over the past year, we have seen a decline in the number of one-bedroom apartments listed in most of the cities analyzed, and in many of them, this trend is evident in both the resale market and the long-term rental market. Many factors can simultaneously influence the number of active listings in a specific city: owner activity, the speed at which properties find a buyer or tenant, local demand, migration patterns, and the overall situation in the local market. Therefore, a decrease or increase in the number of listings does not in itself indicate a corresponding change in demand, but it does show how differently local real estate markets are developing today.
Source: OLX Real Estate data.
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