On Thursday, the Sejm adopted the Act on the amendment to the Act on the protection of the rights of the buyer of a dwelling or a single -family house and a developer warranty fund, and the Act on competition and consumer protection. This is the Polish 2050 project submitted to the Sejm in February this year.
Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, wrote on portal X that after years of the privilege of the development lobby, finally an important step towards buyers' rights. (…) At the end of 1: 0 for people. The problem is that the act will not work as politicians promise.
As a rule, the Act provides for a new obligation for developers, which is to make those interested in acquiring real estate to know its price already when browsing the website. MPs want to oblige developers to Serving the price of an apartment for a square meter and for the entire premises, information about all additional costs related to the offer (parking space, garden or garage) and the history of price list changes. In addition, information about a change in price is to be recorded, and prices transferred to the government's Dance.gov.pl website. The problem is that, as lawyers alerted at Business Insider Polska, that the act in the adopted form does not oblige to disclose prices at the construction stage when most locals are sold. Developers will be required to show prices only ready apartments, and in the case of the primary market there are much less such transactions. Problems will also be caused by a provision according to which, in the event of a discrepancy between the price given on the website and offered at the conclusion of the contract, the buyer has the right to demand sales at the price of the most advantageous for him. However, appropriate amendments to the Act can still be made by the Senate.
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Transaction centers will be, but later
In turn, PiS deputies submitted an amendment to publish not only offer prices, but also transaction prices – i.e. those after which the premises are actually sold. – If the problem is now that the developer, for example, presents an offer to one client for the same apartment, says: 500 thousand. PLN, and to another customer – otherwise he dressed – he offers 475 thousand. PLN, this bill will cause that bids will have to be published. So the offer can be set by the developer to everyone, to tell 500 thousand. PLN, but to the one who was dressed differently and who wants to offer cheaper, he will say that the offer is PLN 500,000, but proposes a 5 percent discount. He will no longer have to write about this discount – explained Piotr Uściński, PiS MP.
However, the amendment did not gain support. As explained by Katarzyna Nałęcz-Płczyńska on portal X that the release of transaction prices is needed. But the PiS amendment in this mode and in this form would extend the work on the act by many weeks (it would probably end with sending back to the subcommittee). In addition, she would give an excuse to undermine the entire law. And I assure you many for this pretext. Transaction prices must be released, but a separate, well -prepared act.
Buyers' problems are solved faster by business
Information about housing prices is needed. If it were otherwise, Zamet.pl would not have been created and did not persist. The platform tracks offers for the sale of apartments from the largest Polish real estate services: Otodom and Morizon and on an ongoing basis displays price changes in these offers. This makes it easy to see how the offer price of a given place changed in time – whether it grew or falling and how much. It allows the buyer to be up to date with what is happening on the real estate market.
