Where in Ukraine is the rent for a one-bedroom apartment the highest?
In the first quarter of 2026, the Ukrainian real estate market saw a significant shift in the rankings, resulting in Kyiv finally dropping out of the top three most expensive cities for renting one-bedroom apartments.
Western regions continue to show rapid price growth due to a shortage of supply and consistently high demand from internal migrants.
According to current data from the “LUN” platform, Uzhhorod has become the absolute leader in terms of cost of living, where the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment has reached 22,000 hryvnias.
This price anomaly is driven by the city’s limited housing stock combined with an active influx of businesses and migrants.
Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk secured second and third places, respectively, with a monthly rent of 17,600 hryvnias.
The capital, meanwhile, came in fourth—renting an apartment in Kyiv currently costs an average of 16,800 hryvnias, indicating a certain saturation of the market and a price correction.
Despite the overall price increase, trends in the regions vary significantly depending on the security situation.
For example, Vinnytsia saw a 27% increase in prices, while in frontline Sumy, prices plummeted by 35%, settling at 6,500 hryvnias.
Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv demonstrated the most striking growth rates in the two-bedroom apartment segment, where prices jumped by 81% and 73%, respectively.
“This is due to the low-base effect: previously, rental prices in these cities had remained at their lowest levels,” noted Lyudmila Kiryukhina, head of “LUN Statistics.”
The situation with three-bedroom housing is also setting records—in Kharkiv, rental rates for spacious apartments have soared by 88% over the past year.
However, in monetary terms, this amounts to about 15,000 hryvnias, which is still significantly less than prices in Uzhhorod or Lviv.
A study by analysts at “DIM.RIA” and “robota.ua” revealed a critical financial burden on residents of Western Ukraine.
Specifically, in Uzhhorod, rent “eats up” to 92% of the average salary, while in Kharkiv, this figure is only 19% of income.
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