r/Austria • u/Icy_Negotiation6995 • 2h ago
Zahlen & Grafiken I tracked every Vienna rental ad since September. Flats under €800 are gone in about 12 days, most above €1,200 are still online after a month
Hey! I'm a uni student in Vienna and since 18 September a script of mine collects every rental ad from the 5 big portals (willhaben and co). I wanted to know if the "everything good is gone in one day" feeling is actually true. So here is what came out after ~50k ads:
- Flats under €800 warm stay online for 12 days (median). 18% are gone within 3 days, 38% within a week
- €800 to 1,200: 24 days
- Above €1,200 the median is still not reached, more than half are still online after 30 days (for €1,800+ it's 66%). My guess is the median will be at the expiry date
- Median asking price is 22.3 €/m² warm, so a 60 m² flat is around 1,340 €
- Donaustadt is the second most expensive district (25.4 €/m²), right after Inner Stadt. Did not expect that. My guess is the new buildings in Seestadt and so on, but I'm not sure
- Cheapest are Simmering (18.9), Liesing (19.2) and Ottakring (19.3)
- 73% of new ads go online between 9 and 19, only 7% at night. Monday is the busiest day, weekends are only 13%
- 9% of flats get posted again after the ad went offline. One flat was reposted 26 times
Being honest about what this is not:
- these are asking prices, not what people actually pay
- "offline" does not mean rented. An ad can be pulled, rented outside the portal, or just expire
- 5 weeks is too short for trends, so I'm not saying anything about rents going up or down
- 27% of ads say befristet, but many ads don't say it at all, so the real share is higher
Method and all numbers (updates every day): https://flatdrop.at/en/stats/methode/ - it's free to use and freely quotable.
If you think something here is wrong or looks weird, tell me, I'll check it. Also what else would you want to see from this data?

