After meeting Duda, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, minister of funds and regional policy, wrote on X that the president had “declared he will sign the housing-price transparency act,” adding: “Developers, get ready to reveal your prices—we will ensure the law is applied without loopholes.”
Parliament approved the measure on May 21, accepting Senate amendments that require developers to:
- list the price per square meter and total price of each unit— including garages and storage rooms—on their own websites and on the government portal dane.gov.pl;
- update the data every 24 hours and keep an archive, so
buyers can track changes;
- sell at the lowest advertised price if a discrepancy arises when a contract is signed.
Violations will be treated as breaches of collective consumer interests and punished by the anti-monopoly regulator UOKiK.
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz told reporters that Duda, who has until June 12 to act, said the rule “should have been in place long ago” and warned against “yielding to the powerful developer lobby.”
All parliamentary caucuses backed the bill, which will take effect one month after publication in the official gazette.
Poland has Europe’s second-lowest unemployment rate and surging demand for new housing, but analysts say opaque pricing has fueled speculation and widened affordability gaps.
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Source: PAP, RMF24