Morocco Market Snapshot: What the City Medians Show Right Now

The six city medians

These are medians of asking prices from the site's own listing history, not completed sale prices. A seller may list above the price they will eventually accept, so read each figure as a picture of what sellers are asking in that city, not as proof of what buyers are paying. The figures move as new listings arrive and old ones expire — check the live market page for the current figure before relying on any number here.

How to read the spread

Rabat sits above the group and Fes below it, with Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, and Tangier in between. That spread reflects the mix of listings in each city as much as it reflects the cities themselves: a city sample with more new or renovated homes will show a higher median than one dominated by older stock, even if the price of the same type of home is similar. Before concluding that one city is "expensive" and another "cheap," compare like with like — the same property type, in comparable districts, over the same period.

Sample size matters too. All six city samples here are in the low hundreds, which makes the city medians reasonably stable. District and typology medians are thinner: a district or property-type median built on a small number of listings can shift noticeably when a few new listings appear. Whenever a median is shown, look for the sample size next to it, and treat small-sample figures as rough indications, not precise levels.

What the medians do not show

Medians do not show rental levels where rental data is thin. Where the site does not have enough rental listings to publish a figure, the market page says so rather than presenting an estimate — an absence of data is more honest than a number built on almost nothing. The same discipline applies to districts: a district with few listings will show a thin or absent median, and that gap is itself information about how active that district's listed market currently is.

Medians also do not show condition, floor, light, building quality, or exact street — all of which move a specific home away from its city or district middle. Two apartments in the same city can legitimately differ in price per square metre for entirely legitimate reasons. Use the city median to set a realistic budget range, then use district medians and individual viewings to narrow it.

How the figures are built

Map Syndicat computes its medians from its own listing history: property listings aggregated from public sources, with links back to the original source, which auto-expire after three days if they are not seen again in the source. The methodology is published on the site, including what the medians are (asking-price medians from listings), what they are not (sale prices or valuations), and the limits that come with small samples. A number with a published method is something you can evaluate; a number without one is a claim.

Using the snapshot in a search

Start with the city median to test whether a city fits your budget including purchase costs and renovation. Then move to district medians on the city market page to find districts within that range. Then view. After a handful of viewings, your sense of what the median means in practice will sharpen — you will learn what a median-priced apartment in that district actually looks like, which is far more useful than the number alone.

For the current figures, district breakdowns, and the full methodology, see the market pages on Map Syndicat and the Casablanca market page.