Renting in Trieste 2025: how many leases, which types and what regulated rent costs

This is the blog's first market report. We set out the official Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) figures on renting in Trieste in 2025, the values in the new regulated-rent lease (canone concordato) agreement, and what we see day to day. Every number comes with its source and its year.

In brief

• In 2025, 5,495 homes in the municipality of Trieste got a new lease: +4.9% on 2024. Friuli Venezia Giulia as a whole fell by 2.2%.
• The fastest-growing group is ordinary transitional leases: +16.6%.
• Regulated rent in Trieste: table values from €4.20 to €11.40 per m² a month, before surcharges (agreement of 15/12/2025).
• On our small scale: 223 people contacted us looking for a home in 90 days, and we had 18 homes online (data at 14/10/2026).

How many leases were signed in Trieste in 2025?

In 2025, 5,495 homes in the municipality of Trieste got a new lease. The figure comes from OMI, the Revenue Agency's property market observatory (Osservatorio del mercato immobiliare). That is 4.9% more than in 2024, while the region fell to 20,874 homes (-2.2%).

Trieste is the provincial capital growing fastest. Pordenone is nearly flat. Udine and Gorizia are falling. Source: OMI, Statistiche regionali Friuli Venezia Giulia 2026.

For tenants, this means a market that is moving. For landlords, it means leases in Trieste are rising even while they fall in the rest of the region.

What lease types does OMI count, and what are ‘transitional’ leases?

OMI splits leases into four groups by crossing two criteria: type (ordinary or subsidised) and length (transitional or long-term). These are statistical groups, not the lease types written on your contract.

• Subsidised (agevolati): the category OMI calls L2. These are the 3+2 regulated-rent lease and student leases in municipalities with high housing pressure.
• Ordinary: categories L1 and L3 (L3 being leases where a business opts to charge VAT). L1 covers leases under art. 2, paragraphs 1 and 3, and art. 5 of Law 431/1998: open-market 4+4, regulated 3+2, transitional up to 18 months, students.
• Transitional: for ordinary leases, those lasting from 1 to under 3 years; for subsidised leases, those under 3 years.
• Long-term: all the others.

A word of caution: these lengths are OMI classes, not legal durations. An OMI ‘transitional’ lease is not the same as the transitional lease (contratto transitorio) you sign, which in Trieste runs from 1 to 18 months.

In Trieste roughly two leases in three are subsidised. Ordinary transitional leases are the smallest group, but they grew by 16.6%. Across the region the same group is flat (-0.5%).

Why are transitional leases growing?

OMI itself gives the answer. For 2025, market operators estimate a fall in short-term tourist lets in Trieste. That fall is not matched by an equal rise in medium- to long-term lets. Transitional lets are growing instead, described as ‘more flexible and secure’.

According to OMI, Trieste's rental market rests on four kinds of demand:

• tourists;
• university students;
• people relocating for work;
• people who cannot manage to buy a home.

OMI also notes that a substantial share of Trieste's homes belongs to ATER and to insurance companies. For a practical comparison of the two routes, see our article transitional versus tourist lets.

How much is regulated rent in Trieste?

Under the local agreement (accordo territoriale) of 15/12/2025, regulated rent in Trieste runs from a single minimum of €4.20 per m² a month to maximums between €6.20 and €11.40 per m². The maximum depends on the zone and the band of the home. These are table values, before surcharges.

Maximum values in € per m² a month. Source: Comune di Trieste, Accordo territoriale 2025.

• The four zones are tied to the OMI zones.
• The band comes from a score based on the home's features.
• If the home sits on the border between two zones, or the zone is unclear, the zone with the higher value applies.
• A furnished home can carry a surcharge: up to +22% if fully furnished, +15% if partly furnished. That is why the final rent can exceed €11.40 per m².

The 2025 agreement replaces the one of 14/12/2022. Leases signed under the old agreement stay under it until they expire. For an estimate on a specific home, there is our regulated rent calculator.

What do we see at TriesteAffitti?

These are figures from our listings and from the enquiries we receive, extracted on 14/10/2026. They are not market figures: they only describe our own share.

• Homes online at triesteaffitti.com: 18.
• Median monthly rent of the 14 homes with a published rent: €1,043. Median means half the homes cost less and half cost more.
• Median rent per m², across the 13 homes with published rent and floor area: €12.37 a month.
• Furnished homes: 5. Available immediately or within 30 days: 7.
• Where: 10 in central Trieste; fewer than 5 each in semi-central Trieste, Barcola, other parts of Trieste, Duino Aurisina and Sgonico.
• People who contacted us looking for a home in the last 90 days: 223. Of these, 198 came via property portals, 7 via our own sites and 18 via other channels.
• By month: 61 in July, 59 in August, 67 in September 2026.

An important caveat. The €12.37 per m² cannot be compared with regulated-rent values. Our figure uses the commercial floor area in the listing; the agreement uses a different, conventional floor area and allows surcharges. Comparing them would lead to the wrong conclusion.

What does this mean for tenants and landlords?

In our listings, demand far outstrips visible supply: 223 people in three months, 18 homes online. Few homes are available at short notice, and furnished ones are fewer still.

If you are looking for a home:

• browse the available homes;
• leave your profile on the Cerco casa page, so we can write to you when something suitable comes up;
• to understand the lease types, read transitional, regulated or open-market.

If you have a home to let, the transitional lease governed by the agreement is a practical route. In Trieste it runs from 1 to 18 months. It does require a documented need, on the landlord's or the tenant's side: the agreement lists five for the former and ten for the latter. The need can also be shown with a self-certification (dichiarazione sostitutiva), which is mandatory when documents would reveal health or other sensitive data.

There is also the student lease: from 6 months to 3 years, for anyone enrolled on a degree or postgraduate course (Erasmus included) in a municipality other than their place of residence. For leases under the agreement there is also the certificate of compliance (attestazione di rispondenza): only the signatory organisations issue it, and it is valid only with a digital signature. These are extra steps, and they take time. You can see how we work on the Owners page.

This article is for information only and is not advice on your situation. For a specific case, you can write to TriesteAffitti through the website.