Living Space Index

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    Full table: 53 cities

    Calculation. One year of salary buys 12 × net monthly salary ÷ price per m². A 60 m² flat costs 60 × price per m² ÷ (12 × net monthly salary) full years of salary. Interest, taxes and purchase costs are excluded, except in the mortgage section.

    Prices. Wherever possible we use official transaction prices for flats in the city itself (median or mean, as published by land registries, statistical offices or notaries; mostly 2025). Where no official transaction price exists, we use the Deloitte Property Index 2026 and mark the city with grade C. The price basis, statistic and period are shown for every city.

    Wages. We use the average net monthly pay of employees in the city or its smallest official region, with annual pay ÷ 12 so 13th and 14th salaries count. Where offices publish only gross pay, we derive net with OECD Taxing Wages 2025 (single person, interpolated at the city's pay level). The geographic level and period are shown for every city.

    Quality grades. A: official transaction price and official wage for the city itself. B: one limitation (e.g. county wage or a mean instead of a median). C: weaker basis (asking or appraisal prices, quotes, wide regions or older data). Headlines use grades A and B only. Cities without any reliable figure are not shown.

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