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Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners in Poland. Principles and procedure
Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners in Poland. Principles and procedure

Author(s): Rafał Blicharz, Ewa Przeszło
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Acquisition of Real Estate; foreigners; permission; The Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration; national security; agricultural real estate; company controlled by foreigners

Summary/Abstract: The article is a study to the practical problems of the acquisition of real estate in Poland. The authors applied technical and legal knowledge to show the whole concept of Polish legislator on cooperation with foreigners according to all kinds of Polish real estates. After short introduction, where authors describes several principles on the regulation, the reader is informed that in the light of Polish law, foreigners are divided into two groups, depending on region, that they come from. Citizens or any other legal persons of EU are allowed to acquisition Polish real estate almost with no barriers, and from other countries must follow some special procedure. The biggest part of the article was sacrificed to that procedure and some special exceptions in it. Some of the barriers for persons from countries - members of EU were made only temporarily, and now, they are passed, but the other ones are still active. They are all the issue of the article.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 11-16
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English