{"id":13870,"date":"2016-10-04T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simproperty.com\/en\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:20:26","slug":"can-foreigners-buy-property-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/news\/know-how\/can-foreigners-buy-property-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Can foreigners buy property in Poland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EU citizens<\/strong>\u00a0can freely buy properties in Poland, except from agricultural land and forests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non EU citizens\u00a0(apartments)\u00a0<\/strong>who have a visa or permission for long term stay in EU, or permission to live for definite period of time can buy apartments, but not houses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non EU citizens (houses)<\/strong>\u00a0who wish to buy a house have to apply for permission from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and can get such permission only if:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0The purchase of a property is not a threat to Polish military defence, safety and public order and is in line with social and health politics<\/li>\n<li>A foreigner can prove his\/her links to Poland (such as: Polish citizenship or Polish roots; marriage with Polish citizen; temporary or permanent residency (EU card); self-employment in Poland; membership of the board in the company \u00a0controlled by foreigner but with headquarter in Poland)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Property bought by non EU resident can\u2019t exceed 0.5 ha if bought for their own purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The application cost for the permission to buy a house for non EU citizens is 1570 PLN + 980 PLN.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Polish Property Tax Overview\" href=https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/news\/know-how\/polish-property-tax-overview\/>Taxes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are the same for Polish\u00a0and non-Polish citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Foreigners can also obtain <strong><a title=\"Poland Mortgages\" href=>mortgages<\/a><\/strong>, under certain conditions,\u00a0in the Poland\u00a0to finance the purchase of property. <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/contact-us\/>Contact us<\/a> to see how we can help you get a mortgage to buy a property in the Poland.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a non-EU citizen there currently does NOT exist any residency program, whereby if you buy a property you would receive Polish\u00a0residency (unlike some other <a title=\"Where can non-EU citizens buy property to get EU residency?\" href=https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/news\/know-how\/where-can-non-eu-citizens-buy-property-to-get-eu-residency\/>countries<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/contact-us\/>Contact us<\/a> to\u00a0see how we can help guide you through the process of buying a property in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU citizens\u00a0can freely buy properties in Poland, except from agricultural land and forests. Non EU citizens\u00a0(apartments)\u00a0who have a visa or permission for long term stay in EU, or permission to live for definite period of time can buy apartments, but not houses. Non EU citizens (houses)\u00a0who wish to buy a house have to apply for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[76,52],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13871,"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions\/13871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simproperty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}