Buying a flat in Purkersdorf rather than Vienna could mean a price difference of more than €200,000, while heading to nearby Mödling might save you almost nothing, according to a new property market comparison.
An analysis by property platform ImmoScout24 compared advertised prices for flats in Vienna and towns across neighbouring Lower Austria, using a theoretical 70-square-metre property to make the figures easier to compare.
Its median asking price for such a flat in Vienna was €471,000.
In several places with relatively quick rail connections to the capital, the equivalent figure was more than €100,000 lower.
How do the main commuter towns compare?
Here are some of the most relevant options for people who still need to travel regularly into Vienna.
Journey times are best-case, station-to-station comparisons based on current rail services. Your actual commute could be considerably longer once you include travel to and from each station, and services vary depending on the time of day.
Anyone considering a move should therefore check their specific route in the ÖBB timetable planner, particularly the connection to the part of Vienna where they actually work.
The Local has also compared some of the main commuter towns around Vienna, including their transport links and what they are like as places to live.
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Where does moving out make the biggest difference?
Of the towns with particularly convenient connections, St Pölten and Purkersdorf stand out for the size of the price gap.
The median asking-price estimate in St Pölten is €211,000 below Vienna's, a difference of roughly 45 percent. Fast trains can cover the journey between St Pölten Hauptbahnhof and Wien Hauptbahnhof in around half an hour.
Purkersdorf is closer to the capital and comes in at €267,000 for the same theoretical 70-square-metre flat. That's €204,000, or around 43 percent, below Vienna.
The quickest trains between Purkersdorf Zentrum and Wien Westbahnhof currently take around 14 minutes, although other direct services take closer to 20 minutes.
Wiener Neustadt also offers a substantial price difference. At €300,000, the comparison puts a 70-square-metre flat €171,000 below the Vienna figure, while some direct trains reach Wien Hauptbahnhof in just over half an hour.
Baden and Klosterneuburg sit somewhere in the middle. Buyers would save around €135,000 to €138,000 based on the ImmoScout24 comparison, with relatively short rail journeys into Vienna.
Mödling shows why simply crossing the city boundary doesn't necessarily mean cheaper property. Its figure of €465,000 is only €6,000, or around one percent, below Vienna's.
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What if you are prepared to commute further?
The price gap becomes even larger farther from Vienna.
In the Melk district, ImmoScout24 puts the comparable asking price at €184,000, some €287,000 or 61 percent below Vienna. The trade-off is a fastest journey of roughly 50 to 60 minutes to Wien Hauptbahnhof.
Amstetten comes in at €236,000, around €235,000 below the Vienna figure, with the train journey taking roughly an hour.
For commuters, the calculation also depends on how often they travel into Vienna and which part of the city they need to reach.
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These aren't actual sale prices
The ImmoScout24 numbers are based on Angebotspreise, or advertised asking prices. They don't show what buyers ultimately paid for a property.
The analysis used 6,992 listing data points and included both existing properties and new builds. ImmoScout24 used the median rather than the arithmetic average to reduce the effect of unusually cheap or expensive listings.
That also means the €471,000 Vienna figure shouldn't be interpreted as the price of a typical individual flat currently changing hands.
Official transaction-price data use a different methodology. As The Local previously reported, Statistik Austria put the 2025 median price for flats in Vienna at €5,212 per square metre.
And there can be major differences even within the same town depending on whether a flat is new or existing, its exact location and condition. A recent comparison of Austria's state capitals found particularly large gaps between new-build and existing flat prices in some cities.
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Key vocabulary
der Angebotspreis - asking price
der Kaufpreis - purchase price
die Eigentumswohnung - condominium or privately owned flat
der Quadratmeterpreis - price per square metre
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