The median sale price of apartments on the secondary housing market in Ukraine in May 2025 rose by 16% compared to May 2024, to UAH 2.3 million, and houses by 25%, to UAH 2.7 million, according to data from the OLX Real Estate portal. According to OLX analytics, the number of active ads for apartments for sale on the secondary market in Ukraine decreased by 12% over the year, to 254,200. At the same time, the number of responses increased by 37%.
In Kyiv, the number of active listings for apartments for sale in May 2025 also decreased overall. Listings for one-room apartments decreased by 17%, two-room apartments by 13%, and three-room apartments by 1%. At the same time, the number of responses increased by 52%, 34%, and 29%, respectively.
According to OLX, the average number of responses to an apartment sale listing in Ukraine as a whole is 3.5. In Kyiv, one-room apartments are in the highest demand on the secondary apartment market, with six responses per listing.
The median price in advertisements for the sale of apartments in Kyiv increased: for one-room apartments by 12% (to UAH 2.9 million), two-room apartments by 17% (to UAH 4.6 million), and three-room apartments by 16% (to UAH 6.6 million).
It is noted that the number of active advertisements for the sale of houses on the secondary market in Ukraine has increased by 4% over the year, to 115,200. The total number of responses has increased by 26%, with an average of 4.7 responses per advertisement for the sale of a house.
As reported in the National Bank of Ukraine’s financial stability report for June 2025, actual home sales transactions show a slight increase in prices compared to the prices listed in advertisements.
The shadow market for cigarettes continues to grow in Ukraine. In April 2025, the overall level of illegal trade in tobacco products reached 16.2% (compared to 14.1% at the beginning of 2025), according to a study by Kantar Ukraine “Monitoring of illegal trade in tobacco products in Ukraine,” published on Monday.
Kantar Ukraine specified that with this level of illegal cigarette products on the market, the annual loss to the state budget due to tax evasion amounts to UAH 25.2 billion, and the volume of the shadow cigarette market in Ukraine exceeds 5 billion cigarettes.
“In April, we again observed growth in the market for illegal tobacco products in Ukraine and a significant increase in the share of counterfeit products to 8.8% (compared to 6.4% in February 2025). According to average annual figures, more than a third of counterfeit products (39%) have signs of fake excise stamps. Among them, according to the inscription on the packaging, 33% were produced by Marshall Fine Tobacco (United Tobacco)/VK Tobacco FZE and 6% by Ukrainian Tobacco Production,” said Tatyana Sverdlik, an analyst at Kantar Ukraine.
At the same time, a significant share is accounted for by illegal products marked “Duty Free” or intended for export and illegally sold in Ukraine. More than half of such products, according to the inscription on the packaging, were produced by the Vinnikivska Tobacco Factory. Compliment (47%) and Lifa (5%) are the main brands in this category. The remaining 43% of illegal products are brands produced by Marshall Fine Tobacco, the most common of which are Marshall (26%), Urta (9%), and Brut (3%).
The study notes that the largest volumes of trade in illegal tobacco products are traditionally recorded in six regions, which together account for 71% of the market for such products Dnipropetrovsk – 27%, Odessa – 13%, Lviv – 10%, Kharkiv – 9%; Kyiv and Kyiv region – 7%, Khmelnytskyi – 6%.
A significant share of illegal tobacco product sales comes from kiosks and shops – in April 2025, 67% of illegal tobacco products were sold through these channels, according to Kantar Ukraine.
In January-May 2025, Ukraine imported aluminum and aluminum products worth $206.628 million, up 20.2% compared to the same period in 2024. In May, imports of aluminum products amounted to $40.340 million.
Over the same period, aluminum exports increased by 31.9% to $57.761 million. In May, the company exported products worth $12.698 million.
In 2024, aluminum imports amounted to $446.006 million (+21.7% compared to 2023), and exports amounted to $124.408 million (+27.4%). In 2023, Ukraine imported aluminum products worth $366.463 million and exported $97.616 million.
In January-May 2025, Ukrainian companies reduced imports of nickel and nickel products by 28% year-on-year to $7.976 million. In May, nickel products worth $3.071 million were imported.
At the same time, Ukraine’s nickel exports amounted to $443 thousand, which is almost twice as much as in the first five months of 2024 ($242 thousand). In May, exports amounted to $69 thousand.
For comparison: in 2024, imports of nickel products to Ukraine increased by 73.7% to $26.730 million, while in 2023 they amounted to only $15.391 million. Exports in 2024 amounted to $602 thousand, and in 2023 – $532 thousand.
The Chornomorka fish restaurant chain has announced the opening of restaurants in the capitals of Lithuania and Hungary.
“We are opening new Chornomorkas. Even two: in Vilnius and Budapest! So if you like to fry fish, we miss you very much – join the team,” the chain said in a Facebook post.
According to its website, as of May, the chain operates 36 restaurants in Ukraine, Moldova, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Poland.