New homes sold by companies and other legal entities outside the POS programme averaged €3,012 per square metre in the first half of 2026. The figure is meaningful—but it is neither a coastal price nor a complete market index.
The €3,012 figure belongs to a clearly defined subset
In the first half of 2026, the average selling price of new homes sold by companies and other legal entities outside the state-subsidised POS programme was €3,012 per square metre. That was 4.4% higher than in the second half of 2025 and 8.9% higher than in the first half of 2025.
The figure is an official average for the defined survey. It does not mean that every new home in Croatia costs €3,012 per square metre. Location, project, fittings, stage of construction and seller can push the price of a particular property significantly higher or lower.
Including POS lowers the overall figure to €2,994
When all sellers covered by DZS, including POS, are included, the average is €2,994 per square metre. POS is Croatia’s subsidised housing programme. The homes recorded under it cost an average of €1,410 per square metre and were therefore substantially cheaper than the other sales.
Despite the large price difference, POS changes the overall figure only slightly. Subsidised homes accounted for 1.2% of the sold floor area observed. The average for all recorded sales is therefore just €18 below the figure excluding POS.
Zagreb and all other settlements are the only location groups
Across all surveyed sellers, DZS reports €3,518 per square metre for Zagreb. All other settlements combined average €2,754. Excluding POS, the corresponding figures are €3,554 for Zagreb and €2,766 for the other settlements.
The second group is not a coastal statistic. It includes Adriatic destinations as well as towns and municipalities inland. The figures of €2,754 or €2,766 therefore cannot be presented as a price for Split, Zadar or Rijeka, or as an average for holiday property by the sea.
The 1,618 homes observed do not represent the whole market
The release covers 1,618 new homes sold, with a combined area of 107,541 square metres. Of these, 1,603 homes and 106,294 square metres were sales outside POS. These totals show the data base on which the averages rest.
They are not a complete count of every new-build sale in Croatia. DZS uses reports from selected legal entities and excludes certain types of sale. The number must therefore not be treated as the total number of new homes sold during the half-year.
What the price per square metre includes
Of the national average of €3,012 excluding POS, €334 per square metre is attributed to building land. Construction costs together with the contractor’s profit account for €1,772. Other costs—including planning, permits, financing, charges and marketing—amount to €906 per square metre.
Profit is combined with construction costs in the published category and is not reported separately. Anyone treating the €1,772 as pure construction expenditure, or automatically calculating a profit margin from the difference, is reading more into the table than it contains.
What the statistics expressly do not answer
Previously occupied homes and houses are not part of this new-build survey. Sales of unfinished structures, self-builds, individual private sellers and transactions outside the defined reporting group are also among those excluded. Estate-agent listings and asking prices are different from the completed sales recorded here.
The average is not a valuation of any individual property either. A sea view, parking, energy rating, furniture, legal status and micro-location remain invisible. For a purchase decision, official statistics, the specific documentation and an independent assessment must be considered separately.
How buyers can still use the figure
As a benchmark, the statistics show that the observed new-build prices continued to rise and that Zagreb is significantly above the combined group for the rest of the country. An offer can be compared with that broad frame—but only when the new-build status, seller group, period and location are reasonably comparable.
For a particular property, the next checks are the price per usable square metre, all ancillary areas and surcharges, the land register and permits, condition at handover, taxes, financing and running costs. The DZS figure begins that examination; it does not replace it.
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