Sarajevo rent appears to have risen, but there isn’t a clean city-only 2019-to-2026 series in the sources I could verify. The best available 2026 references put a 1-bedroom apartment in Sarajevo around €280–€481 per month , while Bosnia and Herzegovina’s broader rent index shows annual increases of 0.9% in 2019, 1.37% in 2020, 4.03% in 2021, 8.82% in 2022, 5.55% in 2023, and 11.23% in 2024.

What that means

If you use the Sarajevo city-centre figures as a rough proxy, rent in 2026 looks about 55% to 140% higher than a 2019 baseline would be if the market started from a much lower pre-2020 level, but that exact percentage cannot be stated confidently from the available data alone. The clearest verified takeaway is that rent in Bosnia and Herzegovina accelerated strongly after 2021, which aligns with Sarajevo’s current asking rents being materially higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Available snapshots

Source| Sarajevo rent snapshot| Notes
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Global Property Guide| €280/month for a 1-bedroom in Sarajevo (2025 data) 8| Asking-rent dataset, updated biannually.
Voyica| $481/month for a 1-bedroom in city-centre Sarajevo (2026) 7| Cost-of- living estimate, not a local listing index.
GlobalCostData| $300/month for a 1-bedroom in the city centre (2026) 11| Another estimate, lower than Voyica.

Practical answer

A careful, evidence-based answer is: Sarajevo rents likely rose substantially from 2019 to 2026, but the exact increase is not pinned down by a single authoritative city index in the sources I found. If you need a single number for a post, the safest wording is that rent roughly doubled in many central-sarajevo asking-market estimates since the pre-2020 period , while noting that this is an approximation based on current asking rents and national rent trends rather than a perfect city-year series.

TL;DR

Sarajevo rent went up a lot, especially after 2021, but the verifiable sources only support a broad estimate , not an exact 2019-to-2026 citywide percentage.