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[OC] What ~$140K gets you in Czechia: 18m² in Prague vs. 68m² 100km away
I collected 20,000+ Czech apartment listings and put 7 ML models to work figuring out what drives their prices. Here are a few things I found interesting in the data:
- Prague's median apartment price is 3.6× higher than in the cheapest region (9.9M vs. 2.75M CZK).
- 3,000,000 CZK (~$140K) gets you roughly 18 m² in Prague, but 68 m² in Most.
- The weirdest one: apartments listed as Projekt (still at the planning/off-plan stage) are actually more expensive per m² than finished Novostavba apartments: 144,616 vs. 125,902 CZK/m². (145,004 vs. 129,523 CZK/m² after the fix)
- Prices fall as you move away from Prague, but only up to a point. After roughly 75 km they start going a bit back up, presumably because you're getting closer to Brno, Ostrava and other cities.
- Even within Prague, location swings price 2.2×: Staré Město (225,000 CZK/m²) vs. Dolní Měcholupy (104,241 CZK/m²). After the fix, that gap now sits at 1.9×: Staré Město (225,000 CZK/m²) vs. Černý Most (119,306 CZK/m²).
Edited: I added annuity (an extra debt some cooperative-ownership apartments carry on top of the listed price) into the price for listings where it applies. This increased some of the cheapest listings a bit, so a few numbers and charts in the link below shifted slightly from what is shown here.
Data source: Sreality.cz (Czechia's largest real estate portal), July-August 2026.
Tool: Python (pandas, matplotlib), full analysis: GitHub link.
A few things these charts do not show worth putting up front:
- These are asking prices, not confirmed sale prices.
- "Implied apartment size" = budget / median price per m² for that city, it's a simplification, not "the exact apartment you would get".
This project is for entertainment/educational purposes, not financial or investment advice.