The Tri -City apartment market attracts investors. Still cheaper than in Portugal

More and more investors are investing capital in Tri -City real estate, which stimulates the increase in prices – the authors of the Otodom analysis pointed out. Average price per sq m. In Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia it is about 14 thousand. PLN, i.e. nearly 40 percent More than 5 years ago, but less than e.g. in the Portuguese Algarve region.


According to data, the average price of a square meter of a flat in Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia is nearly 30 percent. Lower than in the increasingly popular among investors, including Polish, Portuguese Algarve region – the authors of the analysis said.
As they noted, Spain remains the most popular for Poles. According to Data, Registradores de Espana in 2024, Polish investors bought over 4.2 thousand there. premises, which means an increase of 35 percent year on year. In the first half of 2025, the number of transactions already exceeded 2,000, i.e. it was 14 percent. greater than in the same period of the previous year.
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The neighboring Portugal also attracts the attention of Poles. According to the data of the National Statistical Institute of Portugal in 2024, it was visited by over 400,000. Polish tourists. “And this means that a growing group of Poles can begin to consider buying their own holiday apartment over the Atlantic, both for private rest and rental income,” said Otodom experts.
According to the report, the Tri -City is increasingly appearing in the rankings of places worth located capital, and the prices of real estate at the Polish seaside have been rising at a stable pace for several years. According to OTODOM data in 2025, the average price per sq m. In Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia it is 3.2 thousand. euro (approx. PLN 14,000). It is nearly 40 percent. More than five years ago, but still less than in the popular resorts of the south of Europe.
For comparison, in fashionable tourist towns of the Algarve region, such as Lagos, Faro, Tavira and Albufeira, the average price of sq m. According to the data of the Imovirtual.PT website, in 2025 it reached 4.5 thousand. euro. In recent years, this region has recorded an almost continuous increase in prices, driven, among others through the growing influx of investors from Great Britain, France, Germany or the USA. In 2020, a square meter in Algarve cost an average of about 2.8 thousand. euro, which means that prices have increased by over 60 percent for five years.
“Portugal is a mature market, with a long history of foreign investment, stable currency and high demand from buyers from outside Europe. Such factors make it a predictable market, but at the same time more expensive. Infrastructure. What is important, on the Polish market, investors are increasingly seeing the potential of short -term and seasonal rental, which with appropriate management can give a return comparable to the south of Europe at a closer position relative to the place of residence, “commented Milena Chełchowska from Otodom.
Even greater differences can be seen in the capitals of both countries. In Lisbon, where the market is firmly driven by the tourist sector and dynamic economic development, after the sq m. You have to pay today by 40 percent. more than in the most expensive Warsaw in Poland. At the same time, five years ago, this difference was even greater and reached almost 50 percent, which – as the authors of the report pointed out – shows that the Polish market slowly, but systematically shortens the price distance to Western Europe.
Otodom experts indicated that when considering buying an apartment in a seaside resort in Poland or abroad, it is worth considering not only the price per meter, but also the average offered area, which largely determines the final cost of the investment.
In 2025, the average holiday apartment offered in the Algarve had about 90-100 sq m, while in the Tri-City it was 50-60 sq m, which is almost half as much. At average prices of 3.2 thousand euro per meter by the Baltic Sea and 4.5 thousand euro in Portugal, this means that an average apartment in Gdańsk, Sopot or Gdynia costs about 176 thousand. euro, and in the algarve nearly 428 thousand euro.
The demand for the Tri -City real estate does not weaken. According to data, the sale of apartments in Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia in 2025 collected a total of 83 thousand. answers from interested buyers. In the houses segment it was almost 10 thousand.
In Algarve, the investment rate is definitely lower. As the data of the Imovirtual.PT website shows, in the analyzed period of the offer of the sale of apartments in this region attracted about 4,000. answers, and houses – less than 2 thousand (PAP)
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