Rzeszów: a housing tiger from Podkarpacie? The number of apartments under construction could put some larger cities to shame

Rzeszow by number apartments under construction could put some larger cities to shame. We look at an interesting situation in the capital of Podkarpacie.

Probably no one it will be surprising that in 2024 the largest number of new premises and houses were completed in the area Warsaw (14,873). Looking at the lower positions in this housing ranking, we will see more surprising cases. One of them is definitely Rzeszów, which took ninth place in the group of cities with district rights, ahead of, among others, Białystok, Szczecin and Bydgoszcz. Experts from RynekPierwotny.pl in brief they are looking at the situation of the Rzeszów development market, which is large for a city with an official population of around 200,000 people.

Relatively large we can see the scale of housing investments from Rzeszów better after checking this, What was the average annual number in individual cities with district rights? houses and premises put into use per 1,000 people. This is the average the value of the indicator from 2020-2024, which is presented in the table for the twenty cities with the highest and the lowest results. The information visible in the table indicates that the capital For the last 5 years, Podkarpacie has been a city with district rights with the largest the number of completed premises and houses relative to the number of inhabitants.

You can of course argue that the official population of Rzeszów is underestimated due to specificity of the "GUS" population data. This is a fair accusation, but let us remember that it applies to many other cities with district rights - including those large urban centres which are placed right behind in the ranking Rzeszow (Gdańsk, Wrocław and Kraków). What is more, the fact that from 2020 to 2024, an average of 2,880 jobs were completed each year in the capital of Podkarpacie premises and houses. The analogous result from Toruń is 1,532 premises and houses, from Kielce - 1,258, from Olsztyn - 1,116, from Częstochowa - 993, and from Radom - only 835.

What is important, in the case of Rzeszów we are talking about a boom construction, which is still ongoing. In terms of the number of premises and houses started from January to April 2025 (924), Rzeszów ranks ninth among cities with county rights. The reasons for the good investment situation are certainly multi-faceted. Two of them are related to aviation. We are talking about the activation Rzeszów region as a result of the development of the Aviation Valley, which currently employs about 35,000 employees (long-term factor), as well as an increase the importance of the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport (a short-term factor for now).

Of course, other factors can also be indicated, which have activated and continue to activate the Rzeszów "housing sector". It is among others others about:

• historically low the saturation of apartments, which has only recently exceeded the average level for cities with county rights (approx. 485 apartments/1000 people), but it is still a bit lower than the results recorded by Lublin and Toruń, for example (approx. 514 apartments/1000 people)
• a small number the population of Rzeszów in relation to the entire population of the province and the weakness of the markets work from other cities of Podkarpacie (especially those located in the southern and eastern part of the region) - these are factors that promote migration, which improves city ​​demographics
• still a large number students in relation to the total number of inhabitants of Rzeszów (despite the general a decline in the number of students in the city by about one third over 10 years)

For those more interested in the specifics of Rzeszów housing market, we can recommend reading the monograph Rzeszow prepared by RynekPierwotny.pl x FLTR experts.

When talking about Rzeszów, we cannot forget that it is it is the capital of an important regional agglomeration with a population of over 400,000 residents. A recent analysis by the RynekPierwotny.pl portal confirms that the Rzeszów district is one of the leading Poland areas in terms of the scale of individual (private) construction housing. However, the year 2024 brought a record number of houses and premises in sales (843), the construction of which was started in the Rzeszów district.

Investors are entering the area much more cautiously Łańcut district, although long-term market development is visible there too. The emergence of a greater number of development investments in the Rzeszów district and Łańcut is a response to the systematic increase in prices of Rzeszów square footage. Data BIG DATA RynekPierwotny.pl indicates that the average offer price of 1 sq m of new The price of a flat in Rzeszów increased from PLN 6,368 (May 2020) to PLN 11,216 (May 2025). A similar five-year increase (by about 75%) was also recorded in the case of number of available developer apartments.

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