Where demand outruns supply in Ethiopia.
Searches on Ethiopia Property Centre measured against the listings live to meet them, 17 Sep to 16 Oct 2026: where people search and find little or nothing, what they asked for, and what they said they could pay.
Search pressure across Ethiopia
Most competitive areas
Most competitive zones for rentals
Most competitive zones for homes for sale
Searches in the window divided by the listings live on 16 Oct 2026 that a searcher could actually rent or buy — published, priced whole, in ETB. The index puts the national rate at 100.
Unmet demand: where searches find nothing
Where rentals are hardest to find
Where homes for sale are hardest to find
A search found nothing when the page it landed on listed no properties. "Mostly" names the bed count and budget band most of those searches asked for; searches with no bed count or budget stated are counted but not described.
Budgets against asking prices
Searchers furthest below asking, rentals
Searchers above asking, homes for sale
The typical budget is the median maximum price searchers stated, from at least 50 searches that stated one; the asking price is the median of the live listings. "Within budget" is the share of those listings priced at or under the typical budget.
Bedroom mismatch
Bedroom mismatch in Ethiopia
Bedroom mismatch in Addis Ababa
Each bar is the share of searches asking for that bed count minus the share of live listings offering it, in percentage points: to the right, more people want it than the market lists; to the left, the reverse. Searches with no bed count stated, and listings with no bedrooms recorded, are left out of both shares.
Where the enquiries go
Where the rent enquiries go
Where the sale enquiries go
Enquiries are contacts made through the site, counted once per person, listing, channel and day, over the 28 days before the latest scoring night (15 Oct 2026), divided by the listings live on 16 Oct 2026.
Furnished and serviced rentals
The share of rent searches that asked for a furnished or serviced home, against the share of live rent listings that offer one.
Three things shaping demand right now
Bole is the tightest rental market
4.2 searches for every live rent listing, against 11.9 nationally.
See Bole31.8% of sale searches in Yeka found nothing
34 of 107 searches landed on an empty page — mostly 4 bedroom.
See YekaSale budgets in Bole sit 78% above asking
Searchers typically set a maximum of Br 28M against a median asking price of Br 15.7M; 79% of listings within the typical budget.
See BoleQuestions this report answers
Where is rental demand highest relative to supply in Ethiopia?
Bole recorded 4.2 searches for every live rent listing between 17 Sep to 16 Oct 2026, the highest of any zone with at least 100 searches and 20 listings.
How often do rent searches in Ethiopia find nothing?
24.4% of the 6,617 rent searches recorded between 17 Sep to 16 Oct 2026 returned no listings; mostly 1 bedroom · Br 50K to Br 70K.
How do rent budgets compare with asking prices in Ethiopia?
The typical maximum price searchers stated was Br 107.1K, 29% below asking the median asking price of Br 151.3K; 37% of listings within the typical budget.
How often do sale searches in Ethiopia find nothing?
19.1% of the 7,528 sale searches recorded between 17 Sep to 16 Oct 2026 returned no listings; mostly 2 bedroom · Br 15M to Br 20M.
How do sale budgets compare with asking prices in Ethiopia?
The typical maximum price searchers stated was Br 17M, 54% above asking the median asking price of Br 11M; 69% of listings within the typical budget.
How is this report measured?
Demand is every property search run in a browser on Ethiopia Property Centre between 17 Sep to 16 Oct 2026, counted once per search per visit, with searches by reference number left out; searches began being recorded this way on 17 September 2026 and nothing earlier is used. Supply is the listings live at the end of that period that were published, priced as a whole property in ETB and at or above the same price floor the quarterly market report applies. An area is published only with at least 100 searches and 20 live listings; a typical budget needs at least 50 searches that stated one. Figures are refreshed nightly.
How we measure demand against supply.
Demand is every property search run in a browser on Ethiopia Property Centre between 17 Sep to 16 Oct 2026, counted once per search per visit, with searches by reference number left out; searches began being recorded this way on 17 September 2026 and nothing earlier is used. Supply is the listings live at the end of that period that were published, priced as a whole property in ETB and at or above the same price floor the quarterly market report applies. An area is published only with at least 100 searches and 20 live listings; a typical budget needs at least 50 searches that stated one. Figures are refreshed nightly.
No individual search or searcher is published; every figure is a count or a share over an area. Enquiries are counted the way the quarterly market report counts them — once per person, listing, channel and day.
For asking prices, see our average property prices and the quarterly market reports.
Using this data.
Free to use with credit. You can quote and republish these figures, as long as you credit Ethiopia Property Centre and link back to this report. They are licensed under CC BY 4.0, as set out in our terms of use.
Source: Ethiopia Property Centre, Where demand outruns supply in Ethiopia, https://ethiopiapropertycentre.com/market-trends/demand-trends/all-property
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