How much is rent in Albania? Apartment rents in Tirana, Durrës and the coast, and what a tenant actually pays

How much is rent in Albania? The short answer

On 31 October 2026 the median asking rent for an apartment in Albania was €600 a month. Half of the apartments on the market asked less, half more, and the middle half of the market sat between €450 and €860. The typical apartment for rent has 90 m², which in the local way of counting is a 2+1: two bedrooms and a living room. Per square metre, rent asks about €7.60 a month.

That national figure is really a Tirana figure. Two in three apartments for rent are in the capital, where the median is €800 in the centre and €550 in the outer districts. Durrës, the second rental market, asks €500. Everywhere else, from Vlorë and Golem on the coast to Shkodër, Korçë and Pogradec inland, the median asking rent is between €250 and €450.

The rents in this guide are asking rents, what landlords and agents publish on BalkanHome, not signed contracts. They describe the market you will meet when you start looking. Use them to tell a fair asking rent from an inflated one, and read the section on the coast before you compare a summer listing in Sarandë with a year-round flat in Tirana.

Median asking rent, apartment, 31 October 2026

€600 a month (middle half: €450 to €860)

Per square metre

About €7.60 a month

Typical apartment for rent

90 m², a 2+1 (two bedrooms and a living room)

Tirana, centre

€800 (€600 to €1,000)

Tirana, outer districts

€550 (€450 to €800)

Durrës

€500 (€400 to €630)

Coast outside Durrës, year-round

€350 to €450

Inland towns

€250 to €400

Two in three apartments for rent in Albania are in Tirana. If you are not renting in the capital, the asking rent is usually under €500.

Apartment rent in Albania by city: Tirana, Durrës, Vlorë, Golem, Shkodër, Korçë, Pogradec

The table lists the towns and zones with enough apartments for rent to publish a median. The middle-half range (cheapest quarter ends at the lower figure, dearest quarter starts at the upper one) shows how wide the market is; in Tirana the range reflects building age and district, on the coast it reflects season.

Tirana, centre and Blloku

Median €800 (€600 to €1,000) · about €9.00/m² · 95 m²

Farkë (Tirana)

Median €800 (€700 to €1,150) · about €8.70/m² · 100 m²

Tirana, outer districts

Median €550 (€450 to €800) · about €6.90/m² · 93 m²

Kashar (Tirana)

Median €500 (€450 to €550) · about €6.00/m² · 91 m²

Durrës (city)

Median €500 (€400 to €630) · about €6.00/m² · 80 m²

Vlorë (city)

Median €450 (€350 to €550) · about €5.50/m² · 84 m²

Shkodër

Median €400 (€350 to €500) · about €5.10/m² · 70 m²

Golem, Mali i Robit

Median €350 (€300 to €450) · about €6.20/m² · 59 m²

Kavajë coast: Qerret, Spille

Median €350 (€320 to €600) · about €6.40/m² · 60 m²

Sarandë, Ksamil

Median €350 year-round, but a quarter of listings ask €2,200 or more (summer rates)

Korçë

Median €315 (€230 to €400) · about €3.50/m² · 88 m²

Pogradec, Lake Ohrid

Median €250 (€200 to €300) · about €2.90/m² · 94 m²

Rent by apartment size: studio, 1+1, 2+1 and 3+1 explained

Albanian listings describe apartments as 1+1, 2+1 or 3+1: the number of bedrooms plus the living room, which usually has the kitchen in it. A garsonierë is a studio. The table gives the national asking rent by floor area, with the type that area usually corresponds to; a 2+1 in Tirana’s centre costs more than the national row, a 2+1 in Durrës less, and the city table above tells you by how much.

Up to 45 m² (studio, garsonierë)

Median €400 (€350 to €450) · about €10/m²

45 to 65 m² (1+1)

Median €450 (€400 to €550) · about €8.30/m²

65 to 90 m² (large 1+1, small 2+1)

Median €550 (€450 to €700) · about €7.50/m²

90 to 120 m² (2+1)

Median €700 (€550 to €1,000) · about €7.00/m²

Over 120 m² (3+1 and larger)

Median €1,000 (€650 to €1,500) · about €7.10/m²

Rent in Tirana by district and apartment type

Because Tirana is two thirds of the rental market, it deserves its own table. The centre here means the area inside and just outside the ring road, including Blloku, Komuna e Parisit and the streets around the main boulevard; the outer districts run from Astir and Kombinat in the west to Fresku and the Dajt foothills in the east, plus Kashar and Kamëz beyond.

Centre, studio (about 35 m²)

Median €400 (€350 to €450)

Centre, 1+1 (about 65 m²)

Median €600 (€500 to €750)

Centre, 2+1 (about 100 m²)

Median €800 (€680 to €1,100)

Outer districts, 1+1 (about 65 m²)

Median €490 (€400 to €550)

Outer districts, 2+1 (about 100 m²)

Median €600 (€500 to €850)

New-build apartments (developer stock)

Median €700, against €600 for existing buildings

Renting on the coast: year-round rent against summer rent

Asking rents on the coast mix two markets that have nothing to do with each other. A flat in Golem or Qerret let from October to May to a local family or a remote worker asks €300 to €450 a month. The same flat in July and August is let by the week to holidaymakers at several times that rate, and some listings quote the summer monthly price all year. That is why the Sarandë and Ksamil table row shows a median of €350 and a top quarter above €2,200: the median is the year-round market, the top quarter is the holiday market.

If you want to rent on the coast for a year, say so. The Albanian term is qira vjetore, yearly rent, as opposed to qira sezonale, seasonal. A landlord who lets to holidaymakers in summer may still accept a tenant for the other nine months at the low rate, or a full year at a rate between the two, and in Durrës, Vlorë and Shkodër, which have year-round populations, the question barely arises. Our blog post on Albania in winter describes what the resort towns are like once the season ends.

Golem, Qerret, Kavajë coast, year-round

€300 to €450 for a small apartment

Durrës city, year-round

Median €500

Vlorë city, year-round

Median €450

Sarandë, Ksamil, year-round

Around €350

Sarandë, Ksamil, summer monthly asking rents

€2,200 and above in the top quarter of listings

What a tenant pays on top of the rent: deposit, utilities, internet, taxes

The terms of a tenancy in Albania are whatever the written contract says, so read it. A deposit of one month’s rent is the usual request for a long-term let, and both the deposit and the rent are negotiable, especially from October to April and for a contract of a year or more. Insist on a written contract with the owner’s name matching the property; you will need it as proof of accommodation for a residence permit application and often for a bank account, and our guide to the residence permit through property explains what the immigration office expects.

Utilities are paid by the tenant and are low by European standards. Electricity, which heats, cools and cooks in most Albanian flats, costs 8.5 lek per kilowatt-hour for the first 700 kWh in a month and 9.5 lek above that, about 10 lek, or 10 euro cents, with charges and taxes. Water is cheap, gas is rare in apartments, and fibre internet at 100 Mbps or more costs €15 to €25 a month in any city and most coastal towns. Building maintenance for a lift and cleaning is a few euros a month and is sometimes included in the rent.

The tax on rental income is the landlord’s, not the tenant’s: a flat 15%, as set out in our guide to property taxes in Albania. It matters to you only in one way: a landlord who declares the income will have no objection to a written contract, and one who refuses a contract is usually avoiding it.

• Deposit: typically one month’s rent on a long-term let, returned at the end against the condition of the flat; put it in the contract.
• Electricity: 8.5 lek per kWh up to 700 kWh a month, 9.5 lek above, roughly 10 lek all-in. Air conditioning in summer and electric heating in winter are the big items.
• Water, building charges: a few euros a month each.
• Internet: €15 to €25 a month for fibre.
• Agent fee: when an agency finds the flat, it is paid by one side or the other and should be stated before you view; ask.
• Rental income tax: 15%, paid by the landlord.

Furnished or unfurnished: what you get

Most apartments in Albania are let furnished, with a kitchen, beds, wardrobes, a sofa and usually a washing machine and air conditioning in at least the living room. Unfurnished lets exist, mainly larger family apartments in Tirana offered to long-term tenants, and they are not much cheaper, because landlords expect to furnish for the next tenant anyway. Photographs in listings show the actual furniture; if a listing shows an empty flat, ask whether it will be furnished before the move-in date, and have the answer in the contract.

Check the heating and cooling before you sign. A flat with one air-conditioning unit in the living room is normal and is cold in the bedrooms in January; a flat with a unit in every room or a heat pump costs more to rent and much less to run. In older Tirana blocks without insulation, the winter electricity bill can be the difference between a fair rent and an expensive one.

Rent or buy in Albania? Yields and the price-to-rent ratio

Comparing asking rents with asking sale prices in the same zone gives a rough gross yield, the annual rent divided by the price, before any costs. In central Tirana the median apartment asks €220,000 to buy and €800 a month to rent, a gross yield of 4.4%; in the outer districts €145,000 and €550, 4.6%; in Durrës about €116,000 and €500, 5.2%. On the Durrës coast around Golem the figure is similar, 4.5%. In Vlorë, Sarandë and Ksamil sale prices have run far ahead of year-round rents and the year-round yield is 2.5 to 3%; those markets only make sense for an owner who lets to holidaymakers in summer.

Turned around, the price-to-rent ratio says how many years of rent equal the purchase price: about 23 years in central Tirana, 22 in the outer districts, 19 in Durrës. For a tenant that means renting is not expensive relative to buying in Albania, particularly in the capital, and for a buyer it means the case for buying rests on price growth and on using the property, not on the rent alone. Our guide to investing in property in Albania works through the full-year numbers, and the guide to what an apartment costs gives the purchase side.

Tirana, centre

Buy €220,000 · rent €800 · gross yield 4.4% · 23 years of rent

Tirana, outer districts

Buy €145,000 · rent €550 · gross yield 4.6% · 22 years

Durrës

Buy about €116,000 · rent €500 · gross yield 5.2% · 19 years

Golem, Mali i Robit

Buy about €93,000 · rent €350 · gross yield 4.5% · 22 years

Vlorë

Buy about €226,000 · rent €450 year-round · gross yield 2.4%

Sarandë, Ksamil

Buy about €154,000 · rent €350 year-round · gross yield 2.7%

How to tell a fair asking rent from an inflated one

• Find the zone and the size in the tables above and place the asking rent in the middle-half range. Above it, ask what you are paying for: a new building, parking, a view, a short walk to the centre. Below it, ask what is wrong: ground floor, no heating, a landlord who wants cash and no contract.
• On the coast, ask whether the price is yearly or seasonal before anything else, and ask what the rent is for the other nine months.
• Divide the rent by the square metres. Above €10 per m² in Tirana or €7 in Durrës you are paying a premium that should be visible.
• Visit in the evening in winter if you can: heating, damp and traffic noise show then, not at noon in September.
• Get the contract in writing with the owner’s details, the deposit, who pays which bills and the notice period. A landlord who declares the rent has no reason to refuse.
• Negotiate from October to April, when holiday flats on the coast stand empty and Tirana landlords have fewer viewings.