How can I find out if a Polish citizen owns a property?

Is it possible to find out if a Polish citizen owns a house? Not a house that they live in or a house that is known to you; any old house. If so who can or has access this info?

This is for protection not malicious reasons before someone has a go.

It is, but it's not a simple process...

Could you elaborate just a little please? For example is this info readily available to a kommurnic (spelling?) if no-one other than a notary knows?

Yes, but only if you know which house. And even if you find out which property he owns, there are ways and means for him to put that property in effect more or less beyond the reach of the bailiff (or at least to make it very unattractive to and time consuming for the bailiff, for example encumbering it with rights that make it difficult to sell or by subdividing it into different parcels or applying for it to be reclassified, etc).


If you're looking to protect yourself, shoot me a PM with the details and I might be able to suggest some tried and tested techniques.

sorry for the laconic response, I've had some technical difficulties ;)

It's possible but not for everyone. The "komornik" can do it for sure. He's entitled by the law because he's role it to find the debtor's assets. As for you, you have to prove your legal interest in gaining this information. For instance, you have to show that a person which you want to check died and you are entitled to inheritance as her/his heir. You can't check it just out of curiosity.

The application shall be filled to the department called "starostwo powiatowe" and you can only check the area covered by this particular "starostwo powiatowe". If you need to check the bigger area, you'd have to file more applications.

If you're a foreigner, it'll be difficult to do without legal assistance.