May 2016: plot prices in Katowice
Text from 2019. Laws, rates and prices may have changed since then. Ask an agent
Land has always been regarded as a type of investment that is certain and safe. It can be used in many ways and, as long as it is in an attractive location, there will always be demand for it. If you are interested in an up-to-date summary of the market situation in Katowice – we have put together an overview of plot prices.
Hundreds of listings
Browsing the listings on popular property portals such as Morizon or Gratka, we can quickly see that there are quite a lot of plots for sale – as many as several hundred.
Depending on the portal, average prices range from 320 to 340 per square metre (the amounts coming from Gratka and Morizon respectively).
For comparison, according to Gratka the average price per square metre for listings from the whole Silesian Voivodeship is considerably lower, at only PLN 130. The fact that plots are more expensive here is, however, intuitively obvious. Katowice is, after all, the capital of the region, and properties built here can repay many times over all the costs of buying the land and building.
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The centre versus the outskirts
Of course, plots in the city of Katowice come at very different prices, depending on the distance from the centre and the attractiveness of the district itself. It is obvious that there is little land for sale in the city centre and that plots fetch high prices here, even by Katowice standards. The question is what amounts we are talking about.
The number of listings, depending on the portal, ranges from a few to just over twenty, so it is hard to calculate a reliable average. You can find a plot where the cost per square metre is around PLN 180. At the other extreme, you can find a listing for a plot in Katowice where the purchase price is 10 thousand PLN per square metre. However, amounts of around one to two thousand PLN can be taken as the norm. It is worth remembering, though, that plots in the very centre of a city as large and "lively" as Katowice have one important feature.
