Jiří Chudoba, owner of the real estate agency RE/MAX Partner, summed up the current situation on the market: “There are many offers of recreational properties, fewer active buyers.” According to him, selling a cottage or cottage takes over four months on average.
This is a longer time than brokers were used to during the pandemic. This brought the last big boom of interest in buying cottages and cottages. It was more comfortable for people to wait out the restrictions in nature than in a city apartment. However, the subsequent energy crisis and the return of cross-border travel forced some of the owners to get rid of their holiday properties.
According to data from the real estate service Reas, interest in recreational properties stabilized last year. In 2025, more than 2,600 cottages and cottages were sold in the Czech Republic, i.e. approximately the same as a year earlier.
According to the director of Reas, Martin Makoš, it is clear that buyers are becoming more picky. “They are looking for cottages with year-round use, good accessibility and a higher standard. This is reflected in the composition of the properties sold and in the resulting average price,” said Makoš.
This is also confirmed by Poverty. While earlier buyers also took cottages that, for example, did not stand on their own land, now they are considerably more careful in their selection. They examine possible legal defects or whether the cottage has its own driveway.
Buyers are most interested in a combination of nature and good transport accessibility from big cities. Therefore, locations within good transport distance from Prague or Brno remain popular. Chalets and cottages in the mountains, for example in the Krkonoše, Šumava or Beskydy mountains, are also attractive.
They only become more expensive slowly
The prices of cottages and cottages remain at a similar level as last year. Data from Sreality.cz, the largest Czech advertising website focused on real estate, show that in the popular Central Bohemia region, the average price per square meter was 59,197 crowns in February, i.e. almost three percent more year-on-year.
In the South Moravian Region, the price per square meter decreased by roughly 400 crowns to 48,049 crowns compared to last February.
But Makoš points out that looking at average prices can be tricky in the case of recreational properties. The actual amounts that buyers end up paying vary significantly depending on the location and the quality of the cottage.
“The market no longer behaves uniformly, there are huge differences between regions. Therefore, it pays to look at a specific region, not just averages, for recreational real estate,” added Makoš.
Due to the strong offer, buyers have a greater opportunity to negotiate discounts. “Especially for properties with worse technical condition or legal defects, the scope for a discount is significant,” stated Chudoba.
Large price differences are also confirmed by data on last year’s transactions. The cheapest cottage was sold in Vysočina and cost approximately 120,000. The most expensive was a mountain cottage in the Giant Mountains with a price tag of 39 million crowns.
