Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Future of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2023
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Apartment Rental Market on The Border of Poland and Ukraine in The Cities of Rzeszów and Lviv
Prof. Dr. Maria Hełdak
ABSTRACT:
The experimental part of the article presents the research results of the study based on analyzing more than 300 apartment rental offers in the Rzeszów and Lviv housing market at the turn of 2022-2023, after Russia invaded Ukraine.
The purpose of the research is to compare the rental costs of apartments, to determine the correlation between the average rental rate and the location of the apartment in the city, its floor, the area of the apartment, or the residential standard. In the course of the research, the following research questions were formulated: What part of the minimum wage and average wage do Poles and Ukrainians have to pay for renting a 2-room apartment? How different is the market rental rate for an apartment in the analyzed cities?
The experimental part of the article presents the research results based on analyzing more than 300 apartment rental offers in the Rzeszów and Lviv housing market at the turn of 2022-2023. The possibility of renting an apartment result from the financial capacity of potential tenants, which is unavailable to people with low incomes. Hence, the study also analyzed market rental rates in the context of the minimum wage in Poland and Ukraine in 2022.
keywords: market rental rate, apartment rent, apartment rental costs, Rzeszów and Lviv