Housing stocks of Polish counties during period of 2010–2022: prism of quantitative and qualitative changes after taking context of flipping into account

Abstract

Access to housing stock directly determines one’s quality of life, and a property that meets one’s housing needs is usually the most valuable household asset. Any changes in the housing stock are, therefore, important to society. The Polish real estate market has not only been developing dynamically in recent years but has also been influenced by various measures of state interventionism. Even though the first phenomenon should be evaluated positively, interventionism highlights the imperfection of the analyzed market and makes us lean toward the phenomenon of flipping. The article presents selected features of the housing stock in Poland from the period of 2010–2022 (the synthetic-development measures method was used) as well as attempts to draw attention to flipping as a phenomenon on the real estate market.