According to Otodom data, in January this year the average rental price was PLN 3.6 thousand. PLN, and in March it dropped to PLN 3.5 thousand. zloty.
Warsaw, with a price of PLN 4.8 thousand. PLN, clearly lags behind the rest of the country. Tricity, second in the ranking, offers an average rental cost of PLN 3.1 thousand. PLN, which means a difference of as much as PLN 1.7 thousand. zloty.
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Paweł Jarząbek from Otodom pointed out that last month's price correction covered six of the seven largest cities in Poland, including Katowice, Kraków, Poznań, Tricity, Warsaw and Wrocław. The exception was Łódź, where rents remained stable at PLN 2,300. zloty.
— Looking beyond the biggest “seven”, the most interesting situation is in Kielce. Even though this city remains the cheapest market in the ranking, with PLN 2.1 thousand. PLN, the highest dynamics of changes was recorded there. On a monthly basis, prices increased by 2.4%, going against the downward trend visible in the main centers, Jarząbek emphasized.
The report also indicates an increase in the number of apartment rental advertisements on the Otodom website. At the end of March, their number was 25.4 thousand, which means an increase of 4%. compared to February and by 1.8 thousand more than in January. The largest increases in the number of offers were recorded in Olsztyn (18%), Rzeszów (14%) and Bydgoszcz (13%). Increases also occurred in Łódź (10%), Katowice (7%), Wrocław (6%), Warsaw (5%) and Poznań (3%).
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In turn, in Gdańsk the number of advertisements decreased by 10 percent and in Kraków by 2 percent.
However, tenants' preferences do not change. Two-room apartments with an area of approximately 40 square meters are still most popular.
