Poland real estate market — prices, rental yield and trend
- Average price: $3,814 / m²
- Gross rental yield: 4.71%
- 12-month price change (USD): -0.2%
- Net rental yield: 4.31%
- Transaction cost: 3.3%
- Price basis: national average
Residential property in Poland averages $3,814 per square metre. In dollar terms the market has barely moved over the last twelve months (-0.2%). That makes it the 57th most expensive of the 131 markets in the set. In local currency the same twelve months read +6.3%; the 6.5-point gap is the exchange rate, not the housing market.
What a buyer pays in Poland
The $3,814 figure is a national average across all residential property types, which flattens a wide spread — the capital typically runs far above it and small towns far below. Buying costs — transfer tax or stamp duty, notary, registration and agency — come to about 3.3% of the price here. On a 100 m² apartment at the average price that is roughly $12,586 on top of the $381,397 purchase price. That is below the 9.5% median across the set, which shortens the time it takes for a purchase to break even. Inside Poland we also track Warsaw separately, where the average is $6,099 — 59.9% above the national figure.
What it earns
A square metre lets for about $15.0 a month. Against a purchase price of $3,814 per square metre that is 4.7% gross, before tax. Both figures come from the same source and the same period, so you can check the arithmetic yourself. It ranks 98th of 151 markets by gross yield. Rental income is taxed at 8.5%, which takes the yield down to 4.3% net. The 0.4-point difference between the gross and net figure is the part most listing sites leave out.
How the tax works. Private residential letting is taxed under the lump-sum regime (ryczalt) on gross rent with no cost deductions: 8.5% up to PLN 200,000 a year and 12.5% above (PwC: threshold raised from PLN 100,000). Non-residents are taxed on Polish-source income. USD 1,000-3,000 a month (about PLN 47,000-140,000 a year) stays under the threshold, so 8.5% of gross rent. Note: Global Property Guide still quotes the old PLN 100,000 threshold. Source: PwC Tax Summaries Poland, last reviewed 2026-08-11.
Where the price sits against its own history
Prices are +66.1% over five years and +117.9% over ten in local terms.
Poland house price index, 2016–2025 (2016 = 100)
| Year | Index |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 100 |
| 2017 | 103.8 |
| 2018 | 110.7 |
| 2019 | 120.3 |
| 2020 | 132.9 |
| 2021 | 145.1 |
| 2022 | 162.2 |
| 2023 | 176.5 |
| 2024 | 202.9 |
| 2025 | 212.8 |
Rebased to 100 in 2016, the index stands at 212.8 in 2025. The series is in local currency, and the twelve-month numbers above show how much of that a dollar buyer actually keeps.
How this figure is built
The price figure for Poland is built from asking prices from listings. It was last refreshed on 2026-10-15. We rate our confidence in this market’s data low — treat the figures as indicative and check them before acting. We recompute every market the same way; a figure that fails our checks is suppressed, not guessed.
Sources: Numbeo Poland [https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Poland&displayCurrency=USD]; Eurostat prc_hpi_a PL [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_a?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=I15_A_AVG&geo=PL&sinceTimePeriod=2016&lang=en]; Eurostat prc_hpi_q RCH_A PL [https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/prc_hpi_q?format=JSON&purchase=TOTAL&unit=RCH_A&sinceTimePeriod=2025-Q3&lang=en&geo=PL]; Eurostat ert_bil_eur_a (USD, PLN); FX api.frankfurter.dev; PwC Tax Summaries PL [https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/poland/individual/taxes-on-personal-income]; GPG costs [https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/europe/poland/taxes-and-costs]. Snapshot: 2026-10-15.
Related markets: Warsaw