!

Effects of the investment in housing by type of owner or developer including

information on:

Number of newly constructed buildings by:

   number of apartments, average size

   number of stories

   technology type

   area, number of rooms

  Number of apartments by:

   square meters

   number of rooms

!

Selected information on cooperative housing, communal housing, enterprise

housing such as:

  New development

  Renovation

  Rent arrears

  Sale of communal stock, number of buildings, apartments and price per

square meter

!

Stock returned to previous owners

These GUS reports provide data by voivodship. Bi annual reports are published on

new construction by voivodship.  Data by municipality are published by the Voivodship

Statistical Offices or are available from the municipal administrations. As the municipalities

are the primary source of this data, it is possible for them to add to the information

collected (currently all cities collect information based on the GUS questionnaires)

including more data on building characteristics, location and even cost.  This would allow

for better analyses of preferences, building trends, and factors which could be used in

hedonic price studies. However, there is no indication that any municipality has begun to

add to the VUS database.

Improved correlation of data on building permits with applications for residency

permits would illuminate the problem of increased construction time described in the

macroeconomic section (section 2.0 above). This issue of buildings being inhabited prior

to obtaining a residency permit has been raised with municipalities, as it poses a

potentially more significant problems than the statistical issues raised here.

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Analysis of Municipal Budgets.

  Budget information on capital investment in

housing and infrastructure and operating subsidies for housing management is available

directly from each municipality, as aggregated by the Voivodship and Central Statistical

Offices.

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