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AnalysisThat Year the Price Was at Its Peak, Today It Is the Risk: The Lesson of 1399 for Stocks and Housing in 1405
In 1399 (2020 to 2021) the Tehran bourse peaked at a price-to-earnings ratio above 35 and a dollar market value up to 427 billion, while housing jumped 92 percent. Today, in Tir 1405 (July 2026), it is inverted: the bourse near a P/E of 6.4 and about 85 billion dollars, deeply discounted, and housing near its long-run dollar average but frozen, transactions down about 80 percent. The lesson of 1399: that year the price was at its peak; today the risk is.
EducationalHousing as an Asset: How Price per Square Meter, Deposit and Rent, and Transaction Costs Work
This lesson looks at a home as an asset: what "price per square meter" means, how a rental deposit (rahn) and monthly rent convert into each other, the true cost of a transaction (agent commission, tax, municipal fees), and why Iran's housing market moves in "jumps and lulls" rather than a smooth climb.
AnalysisIran's Housing Inflation Hit 4.7% in Khordad; Why Did It Lag Food and Clothing? (Wednesday, July 8, 2026)
Iran's Central Bank released its Khordad (the Iranian month ending June 21, 2026) inflation report on Tuesday, June 30, 2026: annual inflation at 57.7% and point-to-point inflation at 83.1%. The "housing, water, electricity and fuel" group rose just 4.7% that month, slower than food (8.7%), clothing (9.5%) and furniture (10%), echoing Sahmino's report last week on rent's lagging growth.
AnalysisIran's Rent Inflation Hits 31.2% in Khordad (June 2026), Slowest-Rising Item in the Household Basket
Iran's Statistical Center (SCI) reports that year on year rent inflation reached 31.2% in Khordad 1405 (the month ending June 21, 2026), against a nationwide headline inflation rate of 88.6% for the same month, a gap of roughly 57 percentage points that put rent at the bottom of the consumer basket's inflation table. In Tehran, advertised rents reached about 660,000 toman per square meter, up around 43% from a year earlier.