Homes for sale: half the listings are under €200,000, but in the big cities everything changes

€200,000 can be the budget for a four-room home or the ceiling for looking for a studio, depending on the area where you buy. That is the gap highlighted by Casa.it’s analysis of homes for sale listed in October 2026. Half of the listings observed by the portal have an asking price of no more than €200,000, but the national figure brings together markets that are deeply different. In Florence, only 5% of listings fall within that threshold; in Milan, 9%. In Genoa, Palermo and Turin, by contrast, the share exceeds half of the supply. For anyone looking to buy, price therefore has to be read together with location and available size, without turning a national average into a description of every single market.

The national distribution of asking prices

According to Casa.it, 22% of listings concern homes up to €100,000 and 28% are between €100,001 and €200,000. This is followed by the €200,001 to €300,000 range, with 19% of supply, and the €300,001 to €400,000 range, with 12%. The shares fall to 6% between €400,001 and €500,000, to 4% between €500,001 and €600,000 and to 2% between €600,001 and €700,000. The segment above €700,000 accounts for 7% of the total; within it, homes above €1 million make up 4% of the entire supply. These latter homes are therefore not a band to be added to the 7%, but a component of it.

Compared with a year earlier, listings up to €200,000 fall from 52% to 50% of the total. Their share drops by four percentage points in the Northeast, three in the Northwest, two in the Centre and one in the South. The result describes a change in the composition of available listings: by itself it does not measure price increases for the same homes, nor does it make it possible to determine how much is actually paid at the notary closing. The analysis concerns asking prices, not transaction prices, and provides no information on household incomes, access to credit or the condition of the properties.

A very different supply from one area to another

Homes priced up to €200,000 account for 69% of listings in the Islands and 68% in the South, compared with 49% in the Northwest, 43% in the Centre and 37% in the Northeast. The highest regional shares are found in Molise (84%), Calabria (83%), Basilicata (75%), Sicily (74%) and Abruzzo (71%). They are followed by Piedmont and Puglia, both at 69%, Umbria at 64%, Valle d’Aosta at 60%, Campania at 57% and Marche at 56%. Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Sardinia stand at 49%, Lazio at 48%, Liguria at 45%, Emilia-Romagna at 41% and Lombardy at 40%. The lowest shares are in Tuscany (33%), Veneto (31%) and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (21%).

The distinction between provincial capitals and other municipalities also matters: in the former, listings up to €200,000 account for 38%, in the latter 54%. Among the eight major cities examined, the gap is even more pronounced. Florence and Milan show a greater concentration of supply in the higher bands, while in Genoa, Palermo and Turin the €200,000 threshold covers a majority of listings. The table makes it possible to compare all the bands without repeating eight nearly identical lists.

Asking prices in the eight cities

How many rooms the same budget allows

At national level, homes for sale up to €200,000 have an average of four rooms, just like those between €200,001 and €300,000. The figure rises to five rooms in the two bands between €300,001 and €500,000, to six between €500,001 and €700,000, and to nine above €700,000. Room count, however, is a different measure from floor area: it does not automatically show how many square metres are being bought, nor how many of the rooms are bedrooms. At the same price, moreover, location, maintenance condition and building features can significantly change what is being offered.

Territorial differences also emerge in the size of the homes. Up to €200,000, the average is three rooms in the Northwest and in the South, four in the Northeast, the Centre and the Islands. Between €200,001 and €300,000 it is four rooms in all areas, except the Islands, where it reaches five. In the higher bands, sizes grow at different rates: above €700,000, the average reaches seven rooms in the Northeast and Northwest, nine in the South, eleven in the Centre and eight in the Islands. In provincial capitals and other municipalities, the average size up to €200,000 is three and four rooms respectively; above €700,000 it becomes seven and ten. In the big cities, the detailed comparison is summarised in the second table.

Average number of rooms by price band

The picture therefore shows a market in which the same budget opens up very different possibilities. To assess a purchase, it is necessary to start from the supply actually available in the area of interest, linking price, space and property quality. Casa.it’s percentages help guide the search and compare different areas; they do not replace an inspection of the individual home and are not an assessment of its value.