What a lot of rambling! Anyone outside the EU can buy Polish real estate if they get a permit. The posts on this thread are all over the place. Google 'Mamdom', click Property Guide on the left menu and then How to Buy which explains the permit system. At least someone on the web has done their homework.....
IMO too many foreigners are buying Polish housing and jacking the prizes up and forcing the current Poles to move out in order to have other dumb foreigners move in and over pay. Foreigners buying out housing, foreigners buying out lands, foreigners buying out farms.... soon they'll be nothing left for Poles.
Benek - see the big picture, don't be so narrow minded. 40% of the city of London is owned by non-British citizens and it has made the city very wealthy. Perhaps one day 40% of Warsaw will be owned by non-Poles but in the great scheme of things it will benefit the country as a whole.
I hear plenty about Poles buying in Bulgaria and Spain at the moment ... perhaps they should not be allowed ..... ?
IMO too many foreigners are buying Polish housing and jacking the prizes up and forcing the current Poles to move out in order to have other dumb foreigners move in and over pay.
This is unfortunatly true. And this happens to every country, every city. This is the rule of the richest people.
Paris was full of normal people: workers. And now, rich people buy houses, prices get higher, people can not afford to live in Paris anymore. Paris is not Paris anymore, it is a land for mass tourism and rich people. Same thing for the country side in France.
And the same will unfortunatly happen in Poland. This is bad.
I also want to buy a house in Poland, cause I love this country and the people there. So I will be coupable of the phenomenon I don't like. Strange feeling.
I am an Englishman who worked hard in the UK , to be able to buy a small farm in Poland , not because i want to make a huge profit , but because i simply want to live here....In due course i will have a business bringing tourists to Poland , and hopefully i will be employing Polish people....I think most of the houses and lands bought in the future will not be bought by British people , but by Poles who have made their money in the UK and other places....This is part of the price of being in the European union....If enough Poles don,t like it they can vote Poland out of the EU ,England can chuck all the Poles out of the UK , and we can all take a huge step back in time....The only future i can see for Poland is a a major tourist attraction , it will bring wealth , and jobs to Poland , but watch out , some of those tourists might want to live here , i did..!....I think for most Brits , Poland is too far away , and too different for them to get used to , so we are not going to see masses of them buying up Polish land....Perhaps people should have checked out what the European union was all about before they voted to join it.....I think its good for Poland , and the future is good...thats why i am here.....
My wife's Polish and I'm 1/4 Polish (3/4 Scottish!). I lived in Poland for a couple of years back in the late 90's and loved it - but it was regretfully more economically viable to come here at the time (as well as their being family reasons too), so my wife and I came here in 1999 and lived here since (though we return to Poland a couple of times each year). We're hoping to buy land and build on it this year - and rent the property out - with us to use it when we return to Poland for a few weeks every summer and then move into the house in the next few years, when we return to live in Poland.
Does anyone know if their are any significant tax/related problems with our doing this?
Slainte! (Na zdrowie!)
I agree with much oh what Wild Rover's said. I can't see a massive influx of British peopl wishing to buy Polish land etc. Although I personally love Poland look forward to moving back, to the average British person, it's certainly not a place that 99% of people would think of moving to (mainly through ignorance). Living in Scotland (and running a Polish Assoc here) we are trying to integrate Polish nationals here as smoothly as possible, with mutual tolerance. Believe me, Poland will never see the relative influx of British people that Britain has seen of Polish nationals. However, all I can say is that in 2 years of living in Poland I never once got any problems about being Scottish there - it's such a welcoming country and I'm personally 'proud' of my Polish link through my Dziadek.
Don't worry Poland - with your natural resourse, high standard of education and wrok ethic - and through being a part of the EU Poland will undoubtedly be a strong partner in the EU before long and economically far more stable. As far as culture goes, Polish culture is far too strong to be destroyed by being a part of the EU and will survive into the success of the new, economically stable Poland which is emerging daily.
For the non EU citizens in here who were able to buy in Poland please contact me as soon as possible. I would like to know exactly how you did because I too am a non EU citizen who is living in Poland. I would like to purchase a few flats in Wroclaw to start. Thank you!
I have an excellent proposition for you, in the North Western Part of Poland, near the Germanh border, if you are still looking of course. 150 000 euro total for 10 ha of land, and 130 house, pond, garden, storage facilities. All in excellent state. Together with the furniture. Let me know if you are still interested.
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Is anyone aware of any restriction on the number of apartments that an EU citizen can purchase in Poland? My parents bought a flat here a few years back and are thinking of investing in another. Cheers!
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I bought a flat a couple of years ago and it is registered in my name and my Polish spouse's name. It wasn't a problem at all.
When we bought a house later we had a different problem. It is on agricultural land (not a lot, less than a hectare) and the dept of agricultural did not give me permission to be co-owner (I'm not from the EU). We bought it anyhow and the lawyer wrote the documents in such a way that we are co-owners of the house, my husband is the official owner of the land and I have the right to half of the value of the land. It is kind of strange 'cause I am co-owner of a house but not the land it stands on. The lawyer agreed to this set-up because we are married. She said that she has seen some people cheated by such business agreements.
I know a Dutch farmer who had a 99 year lease on his farm land. Has anyone heard of that?
BTW-Change the locks as soon as you take ownership. I mean the same day if possible. We learned the hard way.
