Apartment prices in Lublin are rising. The end of the era of cheap premises is getting closer
Until recently, Lublin was considered a stable and predictable real estate market. However, the beginning of 2026 brought a clear change: the number of new apartments on offer began to decline and prices began to rise. Increasingly, buyers must accept that The “Lublin bargain” price is becoming a thing of the past.
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Apartment prices: Lublin is still among the cheapest, but the advantage is shrinking
Compared to other provincial cities Lublin remains one of the cheapest housing markets. According to BIG DATA RynekPierwotny.pl data, in March 2026, the average price per square meter of new apartments here was PLN 11.7 thousand. zloty. Lower prices were recorded only in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Opole, Zielona Góra, Kielce and Bydgoszcz. We observe similar rates in Łódź, Rzeszów and Toruń. Compared to Warsaw, Gdańsk or Krakow, Lublin remains relatively affordable, although this advantage is gradually decreasing.
As Marek Wielgo, expert of the RynekPierwotny.pl portal, emphasizes, the low price was not the result of sudden declines, but the result of long-term stabilization.
Apartment prices in Lublin
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Housing market: a year of stabilization, the beginning of growth
The year 2025 in Lublin was marked by stabilization – average price per square meter. oscillated around 11.5 thousand. PLN and practically did not change throughout the year. Only the beginning of 2026 brought a significant increase in prices.
Analyzing the last two years, there is a clear upward trend. At the beginning of 2023, the average price of new apartments was approx. PLN 9.2 thousand. PLN per square meter In 2024, it exceeded 10,000. PLN, and in 2025 it stabilized around PLN 11.4–11.5 thousand. zloty. In March 2026, the average price reached PLN 11.7 thousand. PLN, which means an increase of approx. 2%. relative to the end of 2025 and a clear signal of the end of price stagnation.
Apartment prices in Lublin
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Record supply and quick turnaround
Price stabilization was the result record supply. In the second half of 2025, the number of available apartments in Lublin reached a historic maximum – in August there were nearly 4.3 thousand apartments for sale. premises. This was the result of intensive introduction of new projects and weaker than expected demand.
However, from autumn 2025 the offer began to shrink, and at the beginning of 2026 this trend significantly accelerated. In March 2026, less than 3.9 thousand were on sale. apartments, i.e. by approx. 9%. less than a few months earlier. Although the offer was still larger on an annual basis than at the beginning of 2025, the direction of changes is clear.
Apartment prices in Lublin
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The demand for apartments is starting to outpace the supply
Record supply has not ensured sustainable balance. It only took a few months to do so demand began to outpace supply. In 2024 and most of 2025, an average of approximately 725 apartments were put up for sale quarterly, while sales remained at 600 units. In the fall of 2025, developers started selling more apartments than they put on the market, and in the first quarter of 2026, this gap widened even further. Effect? The shrinking supply began to raise prices.
Apartment prices in Lublin
Apartment prices in Lublin
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The structure of the offer: less and less cheap, more and more expensive apartments
Changes in the structure of the offer show how The nature of the Lublin market is changing rapidly. In the first quarter of 2026, clearly the number of apartments priced above 12,000 increased. PLN per square meter — their share increased by approximately 10 percent. compared to December 2025 Simultaneously by approximately 10 percent the number of the cheapest apartments with a price below PLN 10,000 decreased. PLN per square meter
District price map: where is the most expensive, where is the cheapest?
Citywide trends are not evenly distributed. District analysis (12 out of 27 districts where the offer exceeds 100 apartments) shows increasingly greater differences between individual parts of the city.
The most expensive district remains Śródmieście – in March 2026, the average price per square meter here was approximately PLN 15,000. PLN (a year earlier: PLN 14.3 thousand). High prices also remain in Czechów Południowy (approx. PLN 13.8 thousand per square meter)..
On the other hand the cheapest new apartments are available in Czuby Południowe (approx. PLN 9.2 thousand per sq m), and slightly more expensive in Kośminek and Dziesiąta (PLN 9.4-9.7 thousand per sq m)..
Housing offer in Lublin with a change of leaders: Śródmieście loses, South Czechów gains
Although Śródmieście still offers the most apartments, its position is weakening – During the year, the offer dropped by approximately 26 percent. A similar trend is visible in Ponikwodzie and Czechów Północny, although developers are still active there.
Southern Bohemia is gaining in importance — the offer of apartments here has almost doubled, and the growth dynamics in some periods exceeded 100%. year to year. More new premises have also appeared in Kośminek, Wrotkowo and Dziesiąca. The new supply is therefore gradually moving south-east of the city center.
What's next for the housing market in Lublin?
A shrinking offer, demand outweighing supply and a growing share of more expensive apartments they signal that the pressure on price increases in Lublin will not disappear in the coming months. If developers do not significantly increase supply and demand maintains the current pace, 2026 may be the moment when Lublin will definitely lose the status of the “cheap new apartments” market.
