Agata Antczak-Stępniak

• University of Łódź

In many countries struggling with a shortage of affordable housing, one available instrument is to increase the housing stock at the disposal of local authorities using commercial, residential projects. This solution is called the Inclusionary Housing (IH) model, which creates a mix of residents with different rights to housing and who belong to va...

Theoretical background: The functioning of the entire housing market and the sale of developer dwellings depends on many factors. They are, e.g. economic and financial, institutional, environmental, cultural, and religious. Due to the complexity of the real estate market and the variety of factors that influence its functioning, the real estate mar...

Real estate development activity, dependent on the construction market, is characterized by a long implementation time, delays resulting from climatic seasonality, and a long period for which the invested capital is tied up when traditional construction methods are used. Therefore, more efficient construction methods should be sought. One of them i...

The suburbanization of cities began in many countries after World War II and was caused, among other things, by the growing popularity of the motor car, the development of transport networks, and the growth in human populations. In post-socialist countries, this process started later (mainly after the collapse of socialism). Suburbanization was oft...

State intervention in the housing market can take many different forms. In Poland, in 2018, a lex specialis regulation was introduced to the general principles of spatial policy in terms of special privileges for developers operating in the housing market. As the entity responsible for local spatial policy, the municipality has been deprived of its...

Background: Abandoned properties, including “zombie” objects, are common worldwide. Abandoned and decaying for years, they cause negative externalities for municipalities in the form of reduced income from property tax. There is some foreign literature on the subject; however, in Poland, the phenomenon of zombies in the real estate market remains g...

The coronavirus pandemic has influenced cities’ shape and future. Telecommuting, teleconferencing, telelearning and e-commerce are creating a new environment of human life. These new factors should be added to the existing problems of urbanisation that are urban sprawl and depopulation. The authors of the paper decided to examine the intensity and...

Development activity in Poland is regulated by many legal provisions, but one of the most important acts for the implementation of developers’ projects is the Act of March 27, 2003 on spatial planning and development. The Act includes, among others, procedures for the preparation and scope of local spatial development plans. One of the parameters s...

Research background: An assessment of the dynamics of the development of the housing market is critical for development activity and the institutions that finance it. Due to the capital intensity of development projects, it seems necessary to perform detailed analyses to be sure that the investment will find buyers and to know how much time it will...

p> Theoretical background: Developers’ activity shows strong spatial diversification. These differences can be observed both between individual countries and within them - between cities. This means that developers’ activity is affected by a number of diverse factors of a national and local nature, which is also confirmed by the literature on the s...

W monografii poruszono problematykę nasilających się nowych zjawisk i procesów, zmian zarówno w odniesieniu do uwarunkowań społeczno-gospodarczych, jak i środowiskowych, warunkujących mechanizmy rynku mieszkaniowego. Praca nie dotyczy wyłącznie specyfiki polskiego rynku mieszkaniowego, ale jest przeglądem o charakterze komparatywnym w kontekście mi...

The importance of local plans for developers and negative consequences of issuing a large number of decisions on building conditions are usually discussed in literature, with the role of the study of conditions and directions of the spatial development of the commune somewhat diminished in this respect. The question therefore arises whether the stu...

One of the most critical decisions that every developer has to make is what location will be the best for his investment. This depends on different factors that change over the years. Therefore, the aim of the article is to identify and assess tendencies in the location of developers’ investments based on the example of the activity of Łódź develop...

p>Celem artykułu było zbadanie wpływu planowania przestrzennego na działalność deweloperską na przykładzie wybranych miast Polski. Analiza opisowa literatury przedmiotu, dostępnych danych statystycznych oraz informacji o przedsięwzięciach deweloperskich (samodzielnie zebranych przez autorkę) wykazała znaczne zróżnicowanie w powierzchni miast pokryt...

Development activity is primarily characterized by high capital intensity. Developers implementing a venture in the residential market make use of not only their own funds but also capital from potential buyers. Therefore, developers should carefully analyze the markets in which they intend to conduct their business activity. This particularly appl...

Development activity, understood as an economic activity consisting of transforming a property so as to induce an increase in value, has been expanding in Poland since the early nineties of the twentieth century. However, in this country, it is an activity associated mainly with the profit which a developer can make from the sale or rental of the t...

The studies conducted by the author indicate the significance of location for the growth of development activity. Foreign literature also emphasises the impact of this factor on the possibility of the growth of development activity. Location is often understood as the position of the real property in the given city. This paper deals with the issue...

Development activity in Poland began to increase in the 1990's as a result of market-oriented reforms, with the process continuing to this day. The beginnings were, however, not easy due to, among others, the absence of many important legal regulations and the lack of commercial financing. The situation changed in the second half of the 1990's, pos...

Residential development in Poland has gone through many changes over the last few decades. In the 1990s, housing cooperatives played a major role among investors in the residential market, whereas developers were only taking their first steps. Today the situation has reversed. In addition to private persons building homes for their own use, develop...

Developers’ activity in the Polish residential property market has increased considerably in the last 20 years. Developers are today right behind people building homes for themselves as the major suppliers of housing stock. Their activity shows strong spatial variations, both regarding the numbers and types of developers operating in particular mar...