01. The picture
In 2025, 3,585 homes were sold in Trieste
- homes sold in the city in 2025, 0.6% more than in 20243
- 3,585
- the city's average value, 6.3% more than in 20243
- 1,931€/m²
- the average size of a home sold4
- 95m²
- homes sold above 145 m², 4.2% more than in 20244
- 300
Sales are barely growing; prices are growing much faster. The property market Observatory reads Trieste's 2025 like this: sales still steady, fewer and fewer homes available, values rising, above all in the most sought-after areas.2 In short: Trieste is short of homes, not of buyers.
Large homes are a market of their own. Above 145 m², 300 were sold in 2025, fewer than one in ten, yet they grew faster than the rest of the market.4 It is the segment we work in every day: more than 50 of the homes we handle are above one million.
02. Area by area
Where homes are worth the most
- Historic centre2,356 €/m²
- Gretta, Barcola, coast road2,175 €/m²
- Scorcola2,153 €/m²
- Cologna, Roiano, Gretta1,954 €/m²
- Chiadino, Rozzol, San Giovanni1,946 €/m²
- Opicina1,888 €/m²
- San Vito1,863 €/m²
- Southern outskirts1,819 €/m²
- Karst plateau villages1,725 €/m²
- City centre1,694 €/m²
- San Giacomo, Servola1,544 €/m²
The average of every home in the zone, small and large, new and in need of work: it shows where the market is, not what one particular home is worth. Source2
The historic centre is still the most expensive part of the city, yet sales there fell by 28.5% in 2025: few homes, rising prices. Gretta, Barcola and the coast road rose on both counts, 18.8% more sales and 6.7% on value. The strongest rises in value: Opicina, up 9.4%, and San Vito, up 8.4%.2
03. The average and your home
Why your home is not an average
'OMI values cannot be taken as a substitute for a specific valuation, since they give only a broad indication of value.'5
The Agency says so itself. A zone's range applies to one type of home in one condition, usually the most common in the area, measured on gross floor area;1 it knows nothing of your floor, your view of the gulf, the terrace, the garden, papers in order. And Trieste has one more limit: the city is left out of the OMI's quarterly statistics, because ownership here passes through the land register (Libro fondiario), so its figures come out once a year.6
Of the 42 homes we have for sale in Trieste with a published price and floor area, 34 ask more than €3,300 per m², the highest value in any of the city's OMI ranges.7
What makes a fine home valuable is everything an average cannot see, and the buyer decides it. That is why a valuation is made home by home, with the papers in hand and the buyers we know: it is the work we do every day for the finest homes in Trieste.
04. Time and negotiation
How long it takes to sell, and how much is negotiated
The agencies the Bank of Italy surveys every quarter report that in the second quarter of 2026 a home in Italy sold in 5.2 months on average, with a 7.1% discount on the initial asking price. In the North-East the discount was the lowest in the country, 5%.8
These are averages for all of Italy and the whole North-East, not for one home in Trieste. For a fine home, time and discount depend above all on the starting price: it is the first figure we give you, after seeing the home.
05. Before you sell
The seller's papers and taxes
- If you sell within five years of buying, the gain is taxed; not if you inherited the home or, for most of the time, it was the main home of you or your family. With superbonus works finished less than ten years earlier a separate rule applies.9 At the deed you can ask the notary to apply the 26% substitute tax.10
- A copy of the energy performance certificate must be attached to the contract.11
- Land-registry data and floor plans must match the home as it is: without the statement of conformity the deed is void.12
- In Trieste ownership passes only by entry in the land register (Libro fondiario): your name there must be in order before you sign.13
Confidential valuation
Trieste's finest homes come through TriesteVillas: more than 50 above one million, buyers from all over Europe. If yours is special, let's talk.
Notes
- Note 1. Agenzia delle Entrate, Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), property price database, first half of 2026 (the latest published; page updated 15/10/2026): for every zone, property type and condition a minimum and a maximum sale value in euros per m² of gross floor area. The zones of Trieste and the neighbouring municipalities read on the public GEOPOI viewer on 29/10/2026 and checked again on 10/11/2026. Each zone's link is in the calculator. agenziaentrate.gov.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 2. Agenzia delle Entrate, OMI, Regional statistics Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2026 (year 2025, published 05/06/2026), Table 13: sales, share of the housing stock sold and average value for each zone of the city of Trieste, with the changes on 2024. In its commentary the Observatory notes a 'progressive reduction of the available supply and property values tending upwards, above all in the most attractive urban areas'. agenziaentrate.gov.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 3. Regional statistics FVG 2026 (OMI), Tables 10 and 11: 2025 sales and average value of the municipalities in the province of Trieste. For the city alone the value is calculated as the 'average of the central values of the ranges of all residential types present in each zone': €1,931 per m², up 6.3% on 2024. agenziaentrate.gov.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 4. Regional statistics FVG 2026 (OMI), Tables 3, 5 and 7: in the city of Trieste the average home sold measured 95 m²; 300 of the 3,585 sales were above 145 m², and sales above 145 m² grew by 4.2% against 0.6% for the total. agenziaentrate.gov.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 5. Agenzia delle Entrate, OMI page 'Quotazioni immobiliari' (property values), Warnings section, read on 10/11/2026; quotation translated by us. agenziaentrate.gov.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 6. Agenzia delle Entrate, OMI, methodological note on sales (21/05/2024): the quarterly statistics leave out entirely the provinces that use the land-register (tavolare) system, Trieste included; for those municipalities the data are annual, in the Regional statistics. agenziaentrate.gov.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 7. TriesteVillas catalogue: homes for sale in the city of Trieste with a published price and floor area, leaving out land, sold homes, rentals and private-treaty listings; asking price divided by the commercial floor area. Our calculation, redone every time the page is refreshed.
- Note 8. Banca d'Italia, Housing market survey in Italy, 12/08/2026 (second quarter of 2026, answers from estate agencies): average discount on the initial asking price 7.1%, selling time 5.2 months; the smallest discount in the North-East, 5%. bancaditalia.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 9. TUIR (Presidential Decree 917/1986), art. 67(1)(b) and (b-bis): gains on property bought or built no more than five years earlier, except property inherited and property used for most of the period as the main home of the seller or the seller's family; for property with superbonus works completed no more than ten years earlier, letter b-bis applies. Text in force on 10/11/2026. normattiva.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 10/11/2026
- Note 10. Law 266/2005, art. 1(496): at the deed and at the seller's request, the notary applies a 26% substitute tax on the gain. normattiva.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 31/10/2026
- Note 11. Legislative Decree 192/2005, art. 6(3): in sale contracts a copy of the energy performance certificate must be attached to the contract. normattiva.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 31/10/2026
- Note 12. Law 52/1985, art. 29(1-bis): deeds on existing buildings must contain, on pain of nullity, the reference to the floor plans and the owners' statement that the land-registry data and plans match the actual state. normattiva.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 31/10/2026
- Note 13. Royal Decree 499/1929, art. 2: in the land-register (Libro fondiario) territories ownership is not acquired by a deed between living persons except by entering the right in the land register. normattiva.it (opens in a new tab) · accessed 31/10/2026
Written with AI and checked against the sources by the TriesteVillas editorial team. How we use AI →
The parts on taxes and deeds describe the rules as of November 2026 and are not advice: check them with a notary or an accountant before selling. From 1 January 2027 the articles of the income tax code change number.