Real Estate: Report: Bucharest residents find buyers fastest for apartments they sell, Cluj residents, at opposite pole

Owners in Bucharest find buyers for apartments put up for sale the fastest, while residents of Cluj-Napoca are at the opposite end, where the waiting time until finding buyers is, on average, two months, according to a report by a real estate platform.According to data centralized in the research entitled Market 360 "Residential Real Estate Market, Q2 2025", the people of Cluj are "champions" when it comes to the flexibility they show in negotiating prices, while, at the opposite pole, the people of Timi?oara are very strict about the price when selling or buying a home."Owners in Bucharest find buyers the fastest for apartments put up for sale. Moreover, the average time required to identify buyers has decreased since the beginning of 2025 and remains considerably below that recorded a year ago. The transaction is completed in just 47 days. The negotiation margin practiced locally has increased slightly, however. Thus, the difference between the listing price and the declared transaction price reached 4.1% in the April-June period from 3.5% in the first three months of this year. Only in Cluj-Napoca are owners more flexible when it comes to negotiating the price," the Imobiliare.ro analysis shows.According to the cited source, apartments in Brasov, Iasi and Constanta are sold in approximately two months. Thus, in the city at the foot of Tampa, for example, owners and developers needed, on average, 62 days to find buyers for the homes put up for sale in the second quarter. The time required to complete the transaction decreased slightly compared to the beginning of 2025, but remains above that recorded a year ago.In Iasi, one of the most accessible large cities in Romania for those who want to become homeowners, apartments were selling a year ago in just 44 days, a period that rivaled that recorded on the Bucharest residential market.At the same time, in the case of apartments in Constanta, a slight acceleration of transactions can be observed. Last year, homes spent an average of 69 days on the market, at the beginning of 2025 the sales period was maintained at a similar level, only to drop to 64 days in the second quarter.Overall, in terms of the three cities, prices have increased in the last year, between 12% and 16%, and the negotiation margin has increased in Brasov and Iasi, from 2.1% to 3.1%, and from 2.6% to 4.1%, respectively."Moreover, in the case of the main urban center of Moldova, the flexibility of owners in negotiations has become similar to that recorded on the Bucharest market. On the other hand, on the Constanta market, prices have been negotiated less and less in the last year, in the context of strong demand," note the report's authors.