How rents are calculated on ShtepiMeQera.org

City, zone and layout pages show monthly rent figures. This page explains how they are worked out, so that you can read them correctly.

What counts

• Only the listings that are online on that page at the moment you open it. Closed, hidden or blocked listings are left out.
• The figures change whenever a listing is added, changed or closed. The date under the table is that of the last change.
• Figures appear only when a page has at least 3 listings. With fewer they say nothing.

The median rent

We order the listings from the cheapest to the dearest and take the one in the middle: half cost less, half cost more. We use it instead of an average, because one very expensive villa or one mistyped rent moves an average but not the median.

The "from" and "to" rents

When a page has 10 or more listings, the cheapest 5% and the dearest 5% are left out (at least one listing at each end). That way the "from" rent is not a typing mistake. With fewer than 10 listings the lowest and highest rents are shown as they are, and no rent is written in the page title.

Rent per m²

We add up the monthly rents of the page's listings and divide by the sum of their areas. The tables by zone and by layout show the average of each row.

On a listing, "below" or "above the average rent per m²" compares it with properties of the same kind in the same zone; when the zone has fewer than 3 of them, with the city.

Impossible rents

A listing whose rent per m² a month falls outside wide limits for its kind of property is taken off the site until it is reviewed, and does not count. For apartments the limits are 1.5 to 60 euro per m² a month; for houses and villas the lower limit is 0.5 euro, because their area often includes the plot; for business premises 1 to 100 euro, and for garages and parking spaces 1 to 40 euro. Rents under 30 or over 50,000 euro a month are taken off too, whatever the property.

Lek and euro

Rents set in lek are converted to euro at the rate the site uses, which is updated from time to time. The converted figure is approximate.

What these figures do not show

• They are asking rents from listings, not the rents at which properties are finally let.
• They cover the listings on ShtepiMeQera.org only, not the whole market. The fewer listings a page has, the less weight its figure deserves.
• They are not a valuation of any one property. For that, ask a licensed valuer.

How listings are reviewed is described in the publishing rules. For questions, or to tell us about a figure that looks wrong, write to us through the contact page.