Single-family houses up to about 12 miles from the city center can range from 800,000 to 950,000 zlotys ($215,000 to $255,000), and luxury villas start at around 1.5 million zlotys ($405,000). Dabrowska estimated that new apartments in the city start at about 9,000 zlotys a square meter ($225 a square foot). According to the NBP, prices rose 8.25 percent in Krakow year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2019. Prices in Krakow, once Poland’s capital and now an economic and cultural hub - its city center was included in the first group of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in 1978 - have followed suit, as investors have snapped up apartments and used them as rentals for students, workers and tourists, Ms. The property also includes a ground cellar, a former blacksmithing forge converted to a garage, and a courtyard with an Art Nouveau sculpture by the Polish artist Karol Homolacs. Every piece of the furniture inside is really very special. “They were searching for some special things to fit this house. “The owners are big fans of antiques,” Ms. Objects of note include an original Young Poland furniture set from the early 20th century, an Art Nouveau furniture set with modern reproduction upholstery woven in Austria, and a maroon plush set of chairs from 1908, done in the Munich Art Nouveau style. The home is furnished with antiques, some of which may be included with the purchase. The east wing has not been renovated, and plans have been drawn for several bedrooms and bathrooms.
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The masonry, floors, roof trusses, spruce shingles and windows were updated to evoke historically authentic designs, Ms. One has an en suite bath and the other has crimson walls and a small balcony. Two bedrooms are tucked under the eaves, on opposite sides. Since the 1970s, procedural barriers to apartments have become widespread, such as requiring extensive community reviews and discretionary approvals.On the second floor, the landing serves as an office. Where permitted, apartments are often constrained by strict size rules such as maximum building height or caps on the number of homes per acre of land. Many affluent communities ban development of multifamily buildings on the majority of land. Nearly all local governments have zoning laws that are more favorable to single-family homes than apartments and other high-density structures. Zoning generally sets rules by structure type (multifamily versus single-family) rather than housing tenure (rental versus owner-occupied). Local governments use a wide range of tools to regulate new housing development, particularly zoning laws that specify where structures of different types and sizes may be built. States exercise some authority over land use regulation, while the federal government has quite limited powers. Land use planning and development permitting are primarily the responsibility of local governments. Over the past 40 years, the legal and political environments have become increasingly hostile to developing new rental housing.