Immobilienpreise in Bregenz und im Rheintal

What buying costs, by district

Q: STATISTIK AUSTRIA, average property prices, 2025 edition, data base 2021–2025, geometric means. Flats are the median across the published categories, building land comes from purchase contracts (2025). These are districts, not towns.

Building land: the district figure hides the town

For building land the official source goes down to the municipality, and for Bregenz that changes everything. The town of Bregenz stands at 1,264 euros per square metre, the political district at 544. The district reaches up into the Bregenzerwald and spans 121 to 1,264 euros, so a district average says nothing about a single place here.

All municipalities with their land prices

The smallest spread in Austria

Vorarlberg has no cheap district. Between Feldkirch (3,579) and Bregenz (4,243) lies a factor of 1.19, rank 1 of 9 provinces and the tightest of them all. Part of that is arithmetic, because Vorarlberg has only 4 districts. The rest is the actual information, and it can be shown absolutely: the cheapest district of Vorarlberg is more expensive than the most expensive district of Steiermark and Burgenland. And it sits almost exactly at the level of the cheapest district in VIENNA: Wien 11., Simmering costs 3,599 euros.

The year of construction beats the location

In the district of Bregenz an older flat costs 3,286 euros per square metre, a new one 5,221. That is 1,935 euros or 59 per cent difference, while between the most and the least expensive district of the province there are only 19 per cent. Anyone choosing between districts here is deciding about far less money than anyone choosing between an old building and a new one.

Houses

A house costs 4,955 euros per square metre in the district of Bregenz, more than a flat. Across the province the four districts lie between 4,560 and 4,955 euros, an even tighter band than for flats.

And renting?

Vorarlberg pays the highest rent per flat in Austria: 619.90 euros a month net, ahead of Tyrol and Salzburg. Per square metre it is 9.30 euros net and 11.80 including operating costs.

These are rents actually paid across all existing leases (Statistics Austria, Microcensus 2025), not asking rents. New leases cost markedly more: across Austria €9.7 per m² net for contracts under two years old, against €4.7 for those running over twenty years. That gap is why the average across all leases sits well below what you pay on a new one.

The reference rent says the same thing

The statutory reference rent for Vorarlberg is 10.35 euros per square metre (valid from 2026-04-01), rank 1 of 9 provinces and well above Vienna at 6.74. It is worth holding that figure against another one: the province's own housing benefit recognises at most 8.70 euros of rent per square metre, 19 per cent below its own statutory reference.

How housing benefit is calculated in Vorarlberg

What we do not have

We hold no asking prices of our own for Vorarlberg: there is exactly one listing in our stock and it is inactive. Every figure on this page therefore comes from official statistics, and none from our own market. We say so rather than presenting a handful of listings as a market.

Questions

What does a square metre cost in Bregenz?

4,243 euros for a flat in the district of Bregenz, 4,955 for a house, and 1,264 for building land in the town itself. Statistik Austria, from purchase contracts, 2025 edition.

Is Bregenz expensive compared with the rest of Austria?

Yes. Among the eight markets we cover only Innsbruck (5,510) and Salzburg (5,025) are more expensive. What is more unusual is that Vorarlberg has no cheap district at all: even Feldkirch, the least expensive, costs 3,579 euros per square metre.

Where is it cheapest in the Rhine valley?

For flats in the district of Feldkirch, but the difference to Bregenz is only 19 per cent. For building land the differences are far larger: from 203 euros per square metre in Doren up to 1,264 in the town of Bregenz.

Old building or new build?

That is the biggest lever on this page. In the district of Bregenz an older flat costs 3,286 euros per square metre and a new one 5,221: 59 per cent apart, against 19 per cent between the province's districts.

Do you show your own asking prices?

Not for Vorarlberg. We have exactly one listing in our stock and it is inactive, so there is nothing to derive an asking price from. Everything here is official transaction data, and we say which.

On wohnwahn

The market around these figures.

• Buying land in Bregenz
• Housing benefit in Vorarlberg
• Buying a flat in Vorarlberg
• Renting a flat in Vorarlberg