Work on the act had started several months earlier. Tomasz Lewandowski – Deputy Minister of Development and Technology announced in July 2025 a new law that will give local governments real tools to “civilize” the issue of short-term rental. “We want to propose a register of all premises in the country, public and private, in single-family houses,” said Tomasz Lewandowski in an interview with Onet. According to the new act, each premises would be assigned a number with a mark indicating ownership and the method of its use.
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Central register of apartments. Draft bill later this year
If the bill comes into force, Real estate owners will have to declare how the premises are used, i.e. provide information on whether the premises are occupied by the owner, rented, lent or empty. In the case of unused vacant premises, the owner could be charged an additional tax.
“I hope that we will be ready with a draft bill this year,” announced Tomasz Lewandowski, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Development and Technology, quoted by “Głos Wielkopolski”. “We have a lot of records, including emissivity of buildings, an integrated real estate information system, and registers with the National Tax Administration. We try to coordinate it and combine it in one place. To use the resources we already have,” he added.
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The expected effect of introducing the housing register is to include, among others: increasing the availability of premises for rent in Poland. If the owner does not declare the use of the apartment, it will mean that it is empty. The next step may be to tax such vacant properties, which could encourage owners of such properties to sell or rent them. However, it is not yet known how this issue will be resolved. As Tomasz Lewandowski announced in an interview with Onet, “it's about a flexible solution, not a ban.”
