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Limassol(Lemesos)
Cosmopolitan coastal city, financial and shipping hub with the largest expat presence on the island. International schools, fine dining, marina lifestyle.
Population
258,900
Lemesos district · Census 2021
Growth since 2011
+10.0%
from 235,300
Share of Cyprus
28%
of the enumerated population
Census of Population 2021 — preliminary results, CyStat · published May 2022. Final results are published separately; these are the preliminary figures.
Live market read · Limassol
For sale: 73,209 properties — 46,348 apartments · 9,168 houses · 8,685 plots · 5,306 commercial · 3,702 other.
Long-term rental homes: 7,924 (5,853 flats · 2,071 houses), plus 4,253 non-residential lettings, not included in the rent bands below.
Active listings seen in the last 30 days, one per property even when several agents advertise it. Asking prices, not sale prices.
Median apartment price
€475,000
median of 46,345 apartments for sale · middle half €341,000–€760,000
Median house price
€966,000
median of 9,167 houses for sale · middle half €535,000–€2,000,000
Apartment €/m² · what the band actually looks like
why two numbers?Asking price (live listings)
€5,186
median of 29,288 apartments that state a size (of 46,348)
Realised transactions
€3,200
Knight Frank Cyprus H2-2024 (secondary)
Asking prices run ~62% above realised transactions in Limassol— partly the asking-vs-realised gap (sellers list high, deals close lower), partly the listing pool skewing toward new-build and prime stock. Plan your budget against the realised number; use the asking number for what's on the market now.
What it costs to rent in Limassol
Long-term asking rents by size. The band is where the middle half of the market sits — a single median would hide the fact that Limassol holds cheap and expensive stock at the same time, which is the part worth knowing before you choose a neighbourhood.
One bed954 listings with a stated rent
Flats€1,200 – €1,700 · median €1,400/mo (888)
Houses€763 – €1,475 · median €975/mo (66)
Two beds2,976 listings with a stated rent
Flats€1,780 – €2,700 · median €2,100/mo (2,668)
Houses€1,500 – €2,100 · median €1,900/mo (308)
Three beds2,114 listings with a stated rent
Flats€2,100 – €4,000 · median €2,700/mo (1,507)
Houses€2,000 – €3,500 · median €2,600/mo (607)
Also in the 7,924 rental homes, not banded above: 1,086 with four or more bedrooms · 114 with the number of bedrooms not stated · 680 one-to-three-bed homes without a stated rent.
How to read these
These are asking rents, taken from what landlords and agents advertise — mostly on Bazaraki, the classifieds site almost every Cyprus listing passes through, plus the portals alongside it. They are an opening position, not a market rate.
In Cyprus, rents and prices are genuinely negotiable — never take the first figure as final. A long lease, a quiet month, paying a few months up front, or simply a property that has been sitting all move the number. Expect to land under the advertised figure, and treat anything at the top of the band as a starting point rather than a verdict.
Active long-term listings, quality-checked and seen in the last 30 days, one per property — homes only, excluding commercial premises. Asking prices, not signed contracts. Medians use only listings that state a rent; below 5 we do not publish one, and below 12 we show the median alone: a quartile drawn from a handful of listings is not a range. How we calculate this
The island's business capital and its loudest night out, with a mediaeval old town on one side of the marina and a wine region twenty minutes up the hill on the other. If you want a city rather than a coastline, this is the one.
Watch out for
- · Highest rents in Cyprus
- · Traffic on coastal road
- · Construction noise in new districts
What goes on here
The things residents build a year around. Every one links to who says so.
FestivalSeptember, annually since 1961 · next dates not yet announced
Limassol Wine Festival
Ten days in the Municipal Gardens, run by the municipality with the big Limassol producers. It is the event the city organises itself around, and it predates the tourism industry by decades.
“The Wine Festival was organised for the first time in 1961 and since then it has become an established annual event of merrymaking and fun, in which the citizens of Limassol are not the only participants.”Limassol Municipality
FestivalFebruary or March — the ten days before Orthodox Lent, so it moves with Easter · 2027 dates not yet announced
Limassol Carnival
Eleven days ending in the Grand Parade along Makarios Avenue. Schools, neighbourhoods and offices all build floats — it is the closest thing the city has to a civic holiday.
Visit Cyprus — Deputy Ministry of TourismTo see
Kourion
A Greco-Roman city on the cliff west of the city, with a theatre still used for performances and mosaic floors under cover. Fifteen minutes from the motorway, and most residents take visitors there once.
Visit Cyprus — Deputy Ministry of TourismNeighbourhood by neighbourhood
87 neighbourhoods in Limassol measured on live listings. The ones in gold have a page of their own.
Agios Tychon€6,677/m²Mouttagiaka€6,262/m²Germasogeia€5,765/m²Potamos Germasogeias€7,160/m²Mesa Geitonia€4,797/m²PolemidiaPareklisiaPissouri€3,783/m²
Every other measured neighbourhood in Limassol
Agios AthanasiosZakakiNeapolisAgios TychonasAgia FylaKato PolemidiaGermasogeia Tourist AreaAgia ZoniKatholikiYpsonasPantheaKapsalosParekklisiaAgios IoannisHistorical CenterAgios NektariosEkaliOmoniaAgios NicolaosPetrou Kai PavlouMarinaPyrgos LemesouSouniAgia TriadaLinopetraApostolos AndreasMoniErimiTsiflikoudiaTourist AreaAgios Tychon Tourist AreaPyrgosAsomatosTrachoni LemesouPalodeiaOmonoiaPotamos GermasogeiaLimassolGermasogiaAgio AthanasiosTrachoniMouttagiaka Tourist AreaColumbia AreaAgios Ioannis LimassolAgia ParaskeviAgios NikolaosAgios SpyridonCity Center LimassolPotamos GermasogiasAgios Nicolaos LimassolKolossiAgios Tychonas Tourist AreaNicosia Agios IoannisParekklisia Tourist AreaGermasogeia ColumbiaMonagroulliSaint RaphaelPetrou & PavlouAsomatos LemesouPyrgos Lemesou Tourist AreaPolemidia KatoProdromosCity Center - KatholikiMolosKatoAgios SpyridonasAgios AntoniosChalkoutsaAgia NapaParamythaTserkez Tsiftlik (Tserkezoi)TrimikliniTsirionMoniatisGreen AreaPano PlatresFasouriAkrountaMesa GitoniaPalodiaVillage
Right now in Limassol
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Sun
28° / 20°
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Mon
26° / 22°
Showers
0.8mm
Tue
28° / 20°
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Wed
27° / 20°
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Thu
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How does this compare with everywhere else?
The property map puts every measured neighbourhood side by side on price per square metre, so you can see whether this one is a premium and roughly how much of one.