Katowice’s quarterly price shock: 8,054 PLN/m² and a 33.06% drop in Q1 2026

Katowice took the sharpest hit in the Q1 2026 city table

Katowice landed at 8,054 PLN/m² in 2026-Q1 in the NBP BaRN city price series, but the bigger number is the direction: -33.06% quarter on quarter. That is a steep move by any normal city-market standard, and it puts Katowice in a very different lane from the country’s highest-priced large cities.

The same quarterly set shows Warsaw at 16,393 PLN/m², Kraków at 15,110 PLN/m², Gdańsk at 13,870 PLN/m², Wrocław at 12,632 PLN/m², and Gdynia at 12,357 PLN/m². Katowice is well below those levels, and in this quarter it also moved much harder than the larger markets in the sample.

What the city table shows

This is transaction-price data, not asking prices. It tracks secondary-market averages from notarial deeds, so the quarterly shift reflects completed sales rather than developer offers.

Here is the sample from the 2026-Q1 city series:

Katowice is not just cheaper than the top of the table. It is also the outlier on quarterly movement. Warsaw barely slipped. Kraków was also close to flat. Gdańsk and the coastal/Wrocław group fell more visibly, but nothing in the sample approaches Katowice’s quarter-on-quarter drop.

The dataset covers 17 cities in total, which matters because it puts Katowice’s move in a wider national frame rather than a one-city snapshot.

The gap to the big markets is still wide

Katowice’s 8,054 PLN/m² compares with:

• Warsaw: 16,393 PLN/m²
• Kraków: 15,110 PLN/m²
• Gdańsk: 13,870 PLN/m²
• Wrocław: 12,632 PLN/m²
• Gdynia: 12,357 PLN/m²

That leaves Katowice far below the sample leaders. For readers tracking city positioning, the point is simple: Katowice remains a lower-priced market in this quarterly set, but the Q1 2026 drop shows that lower price levels do not automatically mean stability.

If you want to compare this city series with the broader market pages, see Housing market and Katowice buying prices.

Neighbourhood-level context: where to look next

City averages can move fast, especially in a quarter like this. They are useful for reading the market’s direction, but they do not show what is happening street by street.

For address-level context near Katowice, the property price explorer is here: Property prices near Katowice. That page is the right next stop if you want to drill into local transaction-price patterns around a specific area.

Developer register: asking prices to watch

The only developer register entry provided for this topic is HANDELSMAN&ROYCE SP. Z O.O., a developer register page updated on 2026-06-27.

That source matters because developer register entries are mandatory asking prices for new-build units, which are a different market signal from NBP transaction prices. If you are comparing new-build offers with this quarter’s secondary-market average in Katowice, keep those datasets separate.

Practical takeaway

For Q1 2026, Katowice stands out less for its price level than for its speed of change. At 8,054 PLN/m², it sits below the major-city sample, but the -33.06% QoQ move is the headline inside the numbers.

That makes Katowice a city to watch in two directions at once: the city average in the NBP series, and the new-build asking-price side through the developer register. For buyers and renters reading the market cold, the main lesson is to avoid treating one city-wide average as the full story. The next layer lives in neighbourhood data and in the split between transaction prices and developer offers.