How Łódź fits Poland’s place in Europe’s house-price race

Poland is still running ahead of Europe

Poland’s house price index stood at 225.89 in 2026-Q1 on the Eurostat prchpiq (2015=100) series. That puts Poland well above the EU27_2020 benchmark at 166.63 and ahead of Germany at 153.4 and Austria at 172.02.

The clean takeaway: Poland is not just above the European average. It is sitting in the upper tier of this six-country comparison, ranked 3rd out of 6. Only Czechia at 259.3 and Hungary at 387.14 are higher.

The comparison table

Poland’s reading is 59.26 points above the EU average. That is a wide gap, and it matters because this is a transaction-price index, not a wish-list of asking prices. It reflects what has actually been recorded in deeds, not what sellers hoped to get.

Where Łódź sits in that picture

The featured city here is Łódź, and its NBP BaRN transaction price is the local anchor for the national story. The point is not that one city explains the whole country — it doesn’t — but that Łódź helps show how Poland’s strong position in European house-price growth translates into city-level market reality.

For readers checking property values street by street, use the live price explorer here: Poland vs Europe. For address-level context near a specific street or neighbourhood, the transaction-price explorer is the right tool, because the national index and local sales data are different datasets.

What matters for Łódź is the direction of travel: Poland’s national index is already comfortably above the EU average, so local transaction prices are being measured against a market that is not cheap by European standards. In other words, Łódź is not operating in a low-pressure national market. It is part of a country that is already above the continental midpoint.

What the ranking says about Poland

The six-country set is stark:

• Hungary leads by a long way at 387.14.
• Czechia also sits above Poland at 259.3.
• Poland follows at 225.89.
• Austria, EU27_2020, and Germany trail behind Poland.

That places Poland in a narrow group of countries with elevated house-price indices, but not at the top of Europe. The gap between Poland and Czechia is 33.41 points, while the gap to the EU average is much larger at 59.26 points. That is the more useful comparison for readers: Poland is clearly above the European norm, but still below the region’s most intense price-growth cases.

Why the Łódź angle matters

Łódź is a useful lens because it keeps the story grounded in a real city rather than a national average alone. The country-level HPI tells you Poland’s market has risen sharply relative to much of Europe. The city-level transaction price tells you how that abstract rise lands on an actual market.

For foreign buyers and expats, that combination is the key point: Poland’s market is not just moving in isolation. It is moving in a European context where the national reading already sits above the EU benchmark. Łódź, as the featured city, sits inside that framework.

Bottom line

Poland’s 225.89 HPI reading in 2026-Q1 puts it well above the EU average and ahead of big Western peers like Germany and Austria. In this six-country set, Poland ranks third, behind Hungary and Czechia. Łódź’s transaction-price data gives that national position a local face: it shows how a Polish city sits inside a country that is already priced above Europe’s middle.

If you want to compare Poland with the rest of Europe, the dataset is clear. If you want to understand what that means on the ground in Łódź, the city-level transaction-price layer is the next step.