A study of real estate market in Kraków using the methods of spatial econometrics

The article presents implementations of statistics and spatial econometrics that can be used to study real estate market. The analysis covered the area of the administrative unit of Śródmieście district of Kraków. It is a very diverse area of research as it includes both the city core of Kraków and its outskirts. Śródmieście is divided into three districts: Stare Miasto, Grzegórzki and Prądnik Czerwony. The transactional data come from the notarial deeds drawn up in 2011. During that period 739 purchase/sale transactions of apartments were concluded. The purpose of the article is to create a map of the average prices of apartments situated in the administrative unit of Śródmieście. The analysis of the apartment prices was conducted both for the separate districts of cadastral registration (bounds, cadastral districts) and districts and for the whole administrative unit.