The Cracovian agglomeration is an area which covering over 4 thousand km2. It is composed of 51 municipalities inhabited by nearly 1.5 million people. Its major Centre is the city Krakow. Outer Zone consists of the outer suburban and the surrounding areas. Outer Zone consists of the outer suburban area and the surrounding area. The first one cumulate the 12 communes directly adjacent to the county town. It is the so-called "Cracovian bedroom". A large proportion of its population are pendular migrants, learning and working in the city. It should be noted that the community living in these areas is not only the indigenous peoples. Many of people are the immigrant population and local property owners buy them because of the proximity of Krakow. They have the opportunity to have your own house outside the city center and at the same time the occasion to quickly get to it. This resulted in extremely rapid development of the property market in neighboring municipalities.This publication aims to show the preferences of real estate buyers in the market, in areas previously used for agriculture in that urban area in recent years.
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The market of agricultural estates is the leading segment in the real estate market in the Krakow district in terms of activity. There are two groups of investors active in this segment. The former group are the investors purchasing lands in order to run agricultural activity thereon. The latter group involves investors who see opportunities of locating capital in relatively cheap agricultural lands. Various objectives of the investors often cause considerable differences in prices which cannot be explained. Therefore, when analyzing the market of land estates of this nature the transactions related to the purchase of lands for purposes not related toagricultural activity must be singled out. This article presents an analysis of agricultural lands purchased by the former group of investors, lands intended for field cultivation with the total ban on construction and used in this way. ...
