{"id":304613,"date":"2026-10-13T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=304613"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:31:35","slug":"the-monthly-rent-for-a-two-room-apartment-in-yerevan-has-increased-by-23-5-compared-to-august-of-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/304613\/","title":{"rendered":"The monthly rent for a two-room apartment in Yerevan has increased by 23.5% compared to August of last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Monthly rents in Yerevan now run to &euro;800&ndash;900 for a two-room flat, up 23.5% year on year in August, while Tbilisi rents have stabilised after 60&ndash;70% jumps following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russian nationals account for 72% of all foreign property transactions in Armenia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/13\/rent-spikes-in-georgia-and-armenia-as-russians-flee-fearing-mobilisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Rental prices in Armenia and Georgia rose 20&ndash;30% year on year over the summer as Russians fearing a new wave of mobilisation for Russia&rsquo;s ongoing war in Ukraine sought accommodation in former Soviet republics where they can stay without a visa.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia remains the most accessible destination: Russian citizens can stay for up to 360 days without a visa and reset the clock with a brief visit to a neighbouring country. Tens of thousands now live there.<\/p>\n<p>In Tbilisi, monthly rents for standard housing start at &euro;450&ndash;730, rising to &euro;910&ndash;2,700 or more for larger flats or upmarket apartments. The average nominal monthly wage in Georgia stands at around 2,165 lari, or roughly &euro;750, according to the National Statistics Office.<\/p>\n<p>Demand is most acute in Armenia, where Russians &mdash; and Armenians who had been living in Russia and are seeking to avoid mobilisation &mdash; are concentrating mainly in Yerevan.<\/p>\n<p>Monthly rent for a two-room flat in the capital currently runs to &euro;800&ndash;900. Russian citizens can enter without a visa and stay for up to 180 days per year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Armenia&rsquo;s Cadastre Committee, average prices for flats in Yerevan apartment blocks rose 2.9% in August from July and were up 23.5% on a year earlier. Russian nationals account for around 72% of all property transactions carried out by foreign nationals in Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>The average nominal monthly wage in Armenia is 320,763 dram (&euro;790), with substantially higher pay in sectors such as IT, finance and mining.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monthly rents in Yerevan now run to &euro;800&ndash;900 for a two-room flat, up 23.5% year on year in August, while Tbilisi rents have stabilised after 60&ndash;70% jumps following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russian nationals account for 72% of all foreign property transactions in Armenia, Euronews writes. Rental prices in Armenia and Georgia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":304600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304614,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304613\/revisions\/304614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}