Why this has never existed
Every property portal on earth is national — so nobody has ever been able to ask what a home asks in Madrid versus Manchester versus Milwaukee, measured the same way, in the same week.
Every property portal is national. This is a reading of what sellers are ASKING, taken across borders from the same collection method in every market, and published with its own sample sizes so you can judge it.
133,494 listings from 32 live sources across 21 countries. Cross-country comparison published for 5 markets — the rest are listed below with the reason.
The period these figures cover: Every figure on this page is taken from listings this system first observed in the last 90 days — 2026-06-21 to 2026-09-19. It is a rolling window: an edition published next month covers the following 90 days, not a longer history. Earlier listings stay in our collection and are simply not counted here. “First observed” is our own date, not the portal’s. No portal alert mail states when an advert went live, so we do not claim to know it; what we record is when the listing reached us.
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| Country | Listings | Currency | Lower quartile | Median | Median ± | Upper quartile | Sources | Largest source | Largest region | Median size | Median per m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | 45,584 | USD | 399,990 | 685,000 | ±1.5% | 1,195,000 | 3 | 91% | NY 25% | 155 m² | 4,615 USD |
| United Kingdom GB | 21,721 | GBP | 390,000 | 550,000 | ±0.0% | 800,000 | 3 | 53% | EXCESS OF 2% | size not stated | size not stated |
| Germany DE | 6,551 | EUR | 269,000 | 399,000 | ±1.0% | 649,000 | 2 | 74% | BERLIN 74% | 72 m² | 5,742 EUR |
| Spain ES | 5,633 | EUR | 275,000 | 410,000 | ±2.9% | 749,000 | 2 | 70% | not enough locations | 81 m² | 5,411 EUR |
| Israel IL | 4,436 | ILS | 1,690,000 | 2,390,000 | ±2.9% | 3,700,000 | 5 | 74% | ראשון לציון 11% | 102 m² | 23,625 ILS |
Floor area is the cleaner measure and Britain does not publish it — its portals' alert mail states bedrooms and never a square-foot figure. Bedrooms are the one field carried by almost every listing in all three markets, so this is the only like-for-like comparison this corpus supports.
| Country | 2 bedrooms | 3 bedrooms | 4 bedrooms |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | 550,000 USD n=9,219 | 679,000 USD n=12,248 | 849,000 USD n=8,445 |
| United Kingdom GB | 475,000 GBP n=7,799 | 625,000 GBP n=5,373 | 850,000 GBP n=2,629 |
| Germany DE | 318,000 EUR n=2,069 | 493,000 EUR n=1,759 | 710,000 EUR n=818 |
| Spain ES | 385,000 EUR n=1,736 | 430,000 EUR n=2,092 | 699,000 EUR n=669 |
| Israel IL | 1,530,000 ILS n=242 | 1,800,000 ILS n=936 | 2,290,000 ILS n=1,279 |
What this is not: these are not converted between currencies — we hold no exchange rate as measured data, so the conversion is yours to make. They are not equivalent properties: a three-bedroom home is a different size in each market, which is why the size column above sits beside this table rather than instead of it. They are asking prices, not sale prices. And the bedroom count is whatever each portal's own field says; we do not reinterpret it.
Rows we consider implausible — more than 100× or less than a twentieth of that market's own median, usually a rental that leaked in or a mis-read price string. They are left in the data and in the minimum and maximum above rather than trimmed, so the figures we quote and the file you download are the same corpus: US 487 (1%) · GB 31 (0%) · DE 2 (0%) · ES 9 (0%) · IL 158 (4%)
The corpus grows on its own from the portals' own alert streams. Come back next month and these numbers will be different, and current. Most housing data a reader can find was compiled months before it was published.
Citing this means being able to check it. Both files contain exactly the published markets, nothing derived and nothing rounded away.
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Suggested citation: The NOFEE Index, edition 2026-09-19. nofee.realestate/index/2026-09-19/ (CC BY 4.0)
This edition has a permanent URL that will keep saying what it says today: nofee.realestate/index/2026-09-19/
These markets are in our collection but below the publication threshold. They are listed with their real counts so their absence is checkable rather than mysterious. They will appear automatically when the data supports them — no editorial decision is involved.
| Country | Listings | Sources | Why it is held back |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium BE | 25,261 | 1 | only one source |
| Greece GR | 6,264 | 1 | only one source |
| Estonia EE | 6,051 | 1 | only one source |
| Finland FI | 3,107 | 1 | only one source |
| Poland PL | 3,062 | 1 | only one source |
| Netherlands NL | 1,200 | 2 | mixed deal types: 684 rent-shaped and 504 sale-shaped listings in one distribution (57% / 42%). A median across both describes neither. The corpus records no deal type, so sales cannot be separated honestly. |
| Portugal PT | 1,077 | 1 | only one source |
| Switzerland CH | 854 | 1 | only one source |
| Hungary HU | 745 | 1 | only one source |
| Croatia HR | 486 | 1 | too few listings, only one source |
| Denmark DK | 442 | 1 | too few listings, only one source |
| Italy IT | 345 | 1 | too few listings, only one source |
| Sweden SE | 345 | 1 | too few listings, only one source |
| Argentina AR | 286 | 1 | too few listings, only one source |
| France FR | 28 | 1 | too few listings, only one source |
| Ireland IE | 16 | 1 | too few listings, only one source, data not current |