Housing market in Zabrze (June 2016)

Continuing our series on flat prices in the cities of the region, we took a close look at Zabrze and the flats available for sale there.

We carried out the price analysis at the beginning of June, examining around a thousand listings that were available on property portals at that time. If we analyse them all together, ignoring the total floor area and other parameters of the properties on offer, it turns out that the average price of a single square metre is PLN 2623.

Of course, it might be pointed out that this average could be skewed by developer listings. However, there turn out to be so few of them that, once they are excluded, the average price does not differ significantly from the figure mentioned and comes to 2591 per square metre.

Is that a lot? Certainly less than you might pay in Katowice, and Zabrze itself may be attractive to many people because of its easy access to both Katowice and Gliwice.

Small and medium-sized flats

When analysing the prices achieved by flats for sale in Zabrze, we started with one-room properties with an area of up to 30 square metres. For this type of studio flat, the prices in the listings average PLN 2790 per m2.

Interestingly, if we compare this amount with medium-sized flats with at least two rooms, their prices turn out to be surprisingly close. What numbers are we talking about exactly? If we take a floor area of between 30 and 45 square metres and at least 2 rooms as the criteria, the price comes to 2752 per square metre. It can safely be said that Zabrze is very surprising in this respect, because the price per square metre of studio flats is usually higher.

Of course, there is no guarantee that studio flats and medium-sized flats for sale will occur in exactly the configurations presented above. You may well come across, for example, 37-square-metre properties with only one room or 45-square-metre ones with three rooms. However, we adopted the above parameters because they are relatively common and popular with buyers.

Large flats

For a complete picture, we also analysed the prices that have to be paid in Zabrze for larger flats for sale – larger meaning above 45 square metres. In this case the price per square metre is lower, averaging PLN 2541.

A house of your own

Finally, as a curiosity, let us also mention the prices achieved by other properties in Zabrze, such as houses. As it turns out, per square metre they do not differ much from flats – the average price in this case is PLN 2968. The only thing is that a house has considerably more of those square metres.