Spatial Diversification of Development of the Agricultural Property Market in Poland

The paper discusses the development of the agricultural property market in Poland, focusing mainly on identifying the geographical differences in the development of agricultural property markets in voivodships. The study included 16 objects (voivodship agricultural property markets). The temporal scope of the analysis was a decade between 2005 and 2015. The analyses examined closely the number of transactions, their value, areas sold, and the average price of 1 hectare sold by the governmental Agricultural Property Agency and privately traded. The main research hypothesis was made that agricultural property markets in better developed voivodships grow faster than in the less developed ones. The data came from the Local Data Bank of the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute. The data analysis was conducted by means of statistical and econometric methods.