Ferrara Property Prices, Rents & Rental Yields

About Ferrara

Ferrara blends Renaissance heritage with a compact, livable urban core, where historic streets, university life, and a strong civic identity shape the local real-estate story. For apartment investors, the city stands out as a stable provincial market with a distinctly Italian historic backdrop.

August 2026 brings the clearest signal yet: selling values are holding firmer than rents. The average apartment sale price sits at €167,000, with the average price per square meter at €1,860, both up 5.0% year over year even after a modest 0.6% monthly dip. That combination suggests that pricing power has improved over the longer view, but not without recent hesitation.

The rental side tells a different story. Average apartment rents are €770, up 2.7% month over month, yet still down 3.7% from a year ago. That gap matters because the city’s estimated yield is 5.95%, which is reasonable on paper but now sits between firmer capital values and softer annual rent growth. In other words, August shows a market where prices have recovered more convincingly than income, leaving investors to weigh appreciation against a less supportive rental trend.