Here are some types of Polish Property that you could buy in Poland.
Polish Houses.
This covers anything from a humble old wooden Polish farm cottage or shack to large Palaces. Poland is full of old former Palaces that are in various states of condition. You can certainly pick up a bargain but remember to budget for renovating and maintaining it. Renovation and building costs of a Polish property will generally be a lot lower than in the UK so your money does go further.
If buying a rural Polish property you may be offered a wooden farm house which may look fine in a picture but many such building's will be quite old and although just habitable may not have all the mod-cons of a more modern Polish property.
Quite often there is a chunk of land that is also sold alongside the building with maybe extra farm buildings and sheds. It may be wise to just simply pull the old structure down and get permission to rebuild a new modern house.
Please don't ever buy from just a picture on a web site or something that you haven't physically seen, no matter how cheap it is!
Seldom seen in the UK, but some Polish property owners sell new houses at various stages of building finish (stan surowy) eg. you can buy a Polish property that has walls, ceilings and a roof but requires further interior works like fitting doors, kitchens and bathroom fittings to make it habitable. It's quite common to see this kind of Polish property on offer, as buyers can then finish a house according to their own personal tastes and budgets.
Modern Polish property stock can be detached (wolno stojancy) and even semi-detached (bliznak), usually with more spacious room sizes as land prices are a lot lower than in the UK. You will also find small semi-detached and terraced (szeregowki) type developments constructed by local Polish developers.
So, there's a variety of Polish property designs and Polish houses are often sold and described with the amount of overall or total space on offer in terms of square metres, plus the room types available eg. Number of bedrooms etc. as opposed to the UK way of selling where each room type is listed with its size.
Check what else is included in the sale price, what's the size of the garden, the Polish property location and its nearest neighbour, what the local transport and road links are like, where the shops are, nearest airport for flying back to the UK, all the common sense stuff.
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Renovating a Polish property:
Unless you are a fluent Polish speaker you may find, like in many places overseas where foreigners buy property, that local builders increase their prices. Like in the UK try to get more than one quote and go by recommendation if possible by speaking to some local architects or Polish estate agents.
Labour rates are a lot lower in Poland and Polish builders work harder and longer hours so you get your monies worth. It may pay you to appoint one main contractor or project manager to handle all aspects of the building work on your behalf, who can also speak some English and, at an agreed fee.
Depending on which location in Poland you are buying a Polish property, we may be able to do some research for you on this subject (Lists of reputable polish building co's. etc) and produce one of our 'Report' packages.
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