Flats in Praga-Południe — prices, the district, listings

Saska Kępa is modernist villas and 1930s tenements, Francuska street with its cafés, and Skaryszewski Park around the corner. It is the most expensive part of the district and one of the few places in Warsaw where interwar architecture survived intact.

Grochów is a mixture: pre-war houses, post-war estates and new infill. Gocław is 1980s housing between Wał Miedzeszyński and Ostrobramska — a lot of greenery between the blocks, repeatable layouts and prices below Saska Kępa. Kamionek is changing fastest, as the former industrial land around the National Stadium fills up with flats.

Metro line M2 has one station here, Stadion Narodowy, one stop from Świętokrzyska. The rest of the district relies on trams along Grochowska and Waszyngtona and on buses — the further towards Gocław, the more the timetable matters and the less the distance on the map.

By car the bottleneck is the bridges. This is worth testing yourself at eight in the morning before deciding: getting to the other side of the Vistula can take as long as crossing half the city.

Families who want floor space and greenery without moving to the outskirts — Skaryszewski Park is one of the largest in the city, and the Gocław estates were designed with children in mind.

Buyers comparing prices with the left bank who are ready to trade the prestige of an address for a few dozen extra square metres. The right bank has been cheaper for years for exactly that reason, and part of the gap is still visible in prices.