How many Foreigners buy Apartments in Poland?

If you’re wondering how many foreigners buy apartments in Poland, figures provided by the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration for 2025 reveal that foreigners purchased 17,720 apartments.

For obvious reasons, it is Ukrainian citizens who have become increasingly active on the Polish real estate market in recent years.

I will now present some of the main takeaways from data provided by the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration regarding foreigners’ interest in the Polish housing market in 2025.

How many Foreigners buy Apartments in Poland? – Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration Data

The following data provided by the Polish Ministry of Interior and Information reveals a great deal about foreigners’ buying patterns with regard to real estate in Poland:

1. First and foremost, foreigners purchased 17,720 apartments in Poland in 2025. That was 390 apartments more than in 2024.

Here’s a graphic which outlines the number of apartment purchases made by foreigners between 2020 and 2025:

2. The average apartment size bought by a foreigner in 2025 was 58.4 m2.

3. Ukrainians purchased over half of the total number of residential premises acquired by foreigners in Poland in 2025. In 2025, Ukrainian citizens bought 9,295 apartments.

4. Belarusians had long been the fastest-growing group of foreigners buying apartments in Poland. However, in 2025, they purchased 7% fewer properties than in 2024. Belarusians bought over 2,700 properties in 2025.

5. Indian citizens are increasingly active on the Polish property market. They have been buying apartments in Poland since 2005, but have been doing so with increasing boldness over the past six years. In 2025, unit purchases totalled 16,000 square meters, marking a 22% year-on-year increase. This places Indians among the top five nationalities buying apartments in Poland in terms of square footage.

Where are Foreign Nationals buying apartments in Poland?

Unsurprisingly, Warsaw is the most popular city among foreign investors in Polish real estate. In 2025 alone, foreigners bought around 3,137 thousand apartments there. However, this number is around 11 percent less than the number recorded in 2024.

Kraków occupies third place (1,289 apartments), down 15% on 2024. Interestingly, Wrocław overtook Kraków in 2025 with 1,532 apartments purchased by foreigners.

In Zakopane, foreigners bought only seven apartments. The average area of the premises was just over 38 square meters.

As already mentioned, Warsaw and Kraków witnessed quite a steep decline in transactions among foreigners between 2024 and 2025. Conversely, foreign nationals purchased significantly more apartments in Poznań and Gdańsk in 2025 compared with 2024:

The Two Main Reasons for the Steep Rise in the Number of Foreigners Purchasing Apartments in Poland

The significant rise in the number of foreigners buying apartments in Poland since 2017 may be attributed to the following two reasons:

1. Economic immigration of Ukrainian and Belarusian migrants and the impact of the war in Ukraine

Considering that Ukrainians lead the way in terms of apartment purchases in Poland by a significant margin, the war in Ukraine has undoubtedly had an impact on the overall number of foreigners buying apartments in Poland.

A 2023 PKO Bank Polski report stated that the growing demand for apartments was related to the “plans of economic migrants”, mainly from Ukraine and Belarus. Therefore, even before the war in Ukraine broke out, immigrants from these countries were moving to Poland with the intention of staying in the country long-term. The increase in Ukrainians’ interest in apartments in Poland dates back to 2014. It was in March 2014 that Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, while the war in Donbas broke out a month later.

2. High rental yields and significant resale values of properties in Poland

Buy-to-let in Poland is attractive to foreign investors due to the high gross rental profitability and relatively low taxation of rental income. Moreover, the solid macroeconomic foundations of the Polish economy, especially the labour market, allow for a strong increase in housing prices in the long term. Therefore, foreign investors are fully aware of the possibility of reselling Polish real estate for a substantial profit at a later date.

I believe that foreign investors are taking advantage of greater negotiation opportunities due to an excess of offers in Poland’s major cities. Indeed, as of August 9, 2026, there are roughly 20,000 offers for apartments in Warsaw alone on Poland’s leading property portal, Otodom. In my post on apartment prices in Poland, I share graphics which reveal the significant difference between the average asking prices and the average transaction costs of apartments in major cities in Poland.