Post-industrial areas, despite often showing immense damage and high soil contamination, equally often stand out via many positive assets, displaying immense potential. Post-industrial areas, in most cases, commemorate the modernisation and development of a country’s market in urban space. It is expressed in surviving buildings and urban complexes, many of which possess high historical and aesthetic value. We reviewed the literature, identified gaps and demonstrated that this subject is relevant and topical. Insofar as analyses of the urban and architectural structure of post-industrial heritage and assessments of their potential use appear often in the literature, we found that scholars rarely discussed redeveloping post-industrial areas via housing projects. The publications, methods and tools we discussed lacked solutions that could support decision-making in redeveloping post-industrial areas into housing while accounting for the needs and requirements of all stakeholders. Our initial study was based on an online survey performed among a group of specialist experts with close ties to the Polish construction market. Due to the specificity of decayed and degraded areas, any action taken entails high risk and requires a broad range of analyses, which are often not carried out due to said specificity. The main focus of our study was to determine the need to develop a new tool and the necessity of accounting for aspects that directly affect housing projects to be sited in post-industrial areas. As a result, we demonstrated that Polish practitioners displayed a need for a tool to be developed that could aid in decision-making and assessing the potential of redeveloping post-industrial areas into housing areas and that would account for the legal, organisational, technical and economic aspects and that of market analysis.

This article presents the results of a housing market analysis for the city of Krakow. The market study was performed in May 2019 using the online survey method on a group of 104 persons who were currently searching for an apartment. Based on initial studies, the authors analysed the opinions of potential customers, identified the apartments enjoying the highest demand, described the preferences of potential buyers and the criteria that encourage buying real estate to the greatest extent. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the perceived need for persons to have their own apartment is the most common reason for purchasing a property. The most desirable housing has between 40 and 60 square metres of usable floor area, is composed of three rooms, in addition to a kitchen and a bathroom, and has its own dedicated parking space.Streszczenie W artykule przedstawiono wyniki badań dotyczące analizy rynku nieruchomości mieszkaniowych w Krakowie. Badania rynku zostały przeprowadzone metodą ankiety internetowej w maju 2019 roku na grupie 104 osób aktualnie poszukujących mieszkania. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych badań pierwotnych autorzy przeanalizowali opinie potencjalnych klientów, wskazali, na jakie mieszkania jest największe zapotrzebowanie, opisali preferencje potencjalnych nabywców oraz kryteria, które najbardziej zniechęcają do zakupu nieruchomości. Z wyników badań wynika, że potrzeba posiadania własnego mieszkania jest najczęstszym powodem kupna nieruchomości. Najbardziej pożądane mieszkanie ma od 40 do 60 m 2 , składa się z trzech pokoi, kuchni i łazienki oraz posiada własne miejsce parkingowe.Słowa kluczowe: rynek nieruchomości mieszkaniowych, preferencje, Kraków

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The article discusses the parameters describing the realestate market and the factors influencing the situation on thismarket. Based on the analysis of available data, an attempt wasmade to discuss the current situation on the residential real estatemarket in Poland. Changes in supply and demand were determined,and changes in house prices were analysed