Where Polish houses are for sale, and what the portals don’t tell you

There is no single Polish property portal

The listings are on Polish portals, in Polish, behind Polish search terms. There is no one place where everything comes together.

Where the listings are

The numbers in this table are a snapshot.

Nieruchomosci-online.pl had the most listings. For houses, OLX.pl gives no figure, only ponad 1000 (more than a thousand). Otodom and OLX have the same owner, OLX Group.

Come across something that looks good? Email us the listing and we will tell you what it leaves out.

Search with the words Polish sellers use

The filters do the rough work; the gain is in the Polish words next to them. The big portals are in Polish only. Open them in Chrome and choose Translate this page: the translation is clumsy, but good enough to understand the filters and the listings.

The most important split is rynek pierwotny versus rynek wtórny, new build versus existing property. New builds usually come straight from a developer and are handed over in stan deweloperski. That is not a home you can move into: floors, painting, tiling, kitchen, lighting and bathroom finishing still have to be done in whole or in part, and what exactly is included differs per project. So always read the technical specification.

On the existing market everything is mixed together, from ready to move into to a shell that really needs rebuilding. So don’t just filter on price, also search for do zamieszkania (ready to live in), do remontu (to renovate), dom wolnostojący (detached house) and działka budowlana (building land).

Finally, watch out for siedliska. The word is used loosely for rural houses with a lot of land and outbuildings, but legally it says nothing about the size of the plot or what it may be used for. Here too, the title of the listing is not a document.

Morizon and Gratka are one database under two names

Going through both feels thorough, but adds nothing.

Morizon.pl and Gratka.pl showed exactly 32,020 houses, with the same listings in the same order on the first results page. Both brands belong to Grupa Morizon-Gratka.

What counts is not the number of sites, but the number of databases behind them.

Why the same house keeps coming back

A Polish seller can work with several agencies at once. That is called an umowa otwarta, an open brokerage agreement.

Each agency then places its own listing, with its own text, its own contact details and its own asking price. With an umowa na wyłączność, an exclusive agreement, one agency controls the price.

The comparison site Dzialkopedia collected 374,988 listings from ten portals, on 9 June 2026. After removing duplicates, 149,124 listings were marked as repeat publications, almost 40% of the total. That left 225,864 unique offers. That count was about building plots. Whether the same share applies to houses has not been shown.

The aggregator Adresowo.pl describes the same problem: moderators remove duplicates, and where several agents list a property they show one.

For your search that means: count properties, not listings.

Behind eight out of ten Otodom listings is an agency

Estate agency in Poland has been deregulated since 1 January 2014. There is no training requirement, no exam and no background check. Anyone can open an agency.

What did remain is compulsory professional liability insurance. The legal minimum is the zloty equivalent of 25,000 euros, per event and per insurance year.

The agent has to attach proof of that policy to the brokerage agreement, and that agreement is only valid in writing or electronic form. Ask for the proof: it is the only hard check you can do on a Polish agency.

Who pays the agent is not set by law

Polish law sets no maximum commission and does not say which party pays. Who pays follows from the contract.

Three models exist side by side: the seller pays, the buyer pays, or both pay a share. Only the agency itself can tell you what it charges and to whom.

What you sign before you see a house inside

A form presented as confirmation of a viewing can at the same time be a full brokerage agreement, including an obligation to pay.

So before you sign, check when the commission becomes due: at the reservation, at the preliminary contract, or only at the notarial deed. Go through the term, the exclusivity, the penalties and the clauses that apply if your partner, a relative or your company ends up buying.

Going round the agent afterwards is no way out. If the agency introduced the property and there is a signed agreement, the commission can still be due on a later direct purchase. A vague location and unclear photos in a listing are partly meant to make that direct route harder.

Since deregulation a state licence is no longer required, but professional liability insurance is. Ask for a copy of the current policy and have it attached to the agreement.

What a Polish listing shows, and what it doesn’t

The words can be translated, the meaning not always.

On Morizon, next to the date a listing was placed, you also see the date it was pushed back to the top, podbite. An old property then sits at the top as if it has just gone online.

The descriptions of condition are the hardest. Stan surowy zamknięty sounds like a weathertight shell, but the term is not defined anywhere in law. What it covers differs per seller.

What you can check yourself, and what the notary doesn’t do

The register has four sections. Section three is the most interesting: it lists seizures, claims from a preliminary sale agreement, rights of use and warnings about the legal status.

That is what we do for you: look on the spot, read the register, find out who the seller really is. We sell nothing ourselves and earn nothing from the selling side.

Is there a listing open in another tab right now? Send the link through the contact form and you will hear what it leaves out.

This page explains the main points and is not legal, tax or building advice. The numbers given are a snapshot. Figures as of August 2026.

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