Recently, experts of portal ee24.com have detected a high interest of Ukrainian users in real estate in Poland. Due to political and economic instability in Ukraine, and a popular demonstrations called Euromaidan, more and more citizens of the country dream to move to neighboring Poland.
The number of search queries related to the purchase of houses and apartments in Poland, that come from ip-addresses of Ukrainian providers, has increased. In addition, the attendance of catalog of real estate in Poland is also breaking records. Note that in 2012, by the number of purchases of real estate in Poland, committed by foreigners, Ukrainians were second to Germans.
Ukrainians already lead among recipients of Polish Card (Karta Polaka), a document confirming the belonging to the Polish nation. The card is issued for ethnic Poles who can speak in Polish and live in one of the countries of the former Soviet Union. Card entitles to work in Poland, get free education and medical care. Interestingly, some of the neighboring countries consider that Polish Card discriminates other ethnic groups.
In Q3 2013, apartments in Warsaw were worth an average of €1,962 per square meter. Apartments in Krakow could be bought for €1,580 per sq.m, apartments in the cities of Wroclaw and Poznan went for €1,500 per sq.m. Inexpensive real estate in Poland could be bought in Lodz, where the average cost of square meter was €1,082.