Kraków - City Attractiveness, Office Market and HR Trends, H1 2025

Knight Frank's H1 2025 report on Krakow assesses the city's investment attractiveness, office market dynamics, and labor market trends. Key findings include Krakow ranking 1st in business friendliness and human capital among large European cities in the fDi's 2025 ranking, with 1.83 million sq m of office stock, record H1 2025 take-up of 172,000 sq m (including nearly 123,000 sq m in Q2 alone), a vacancy rate of 17.3%, and headline rents stable at EUR 10–18 per sq m/month, while an HR perspective section examines EU pay transparency directive implementation challenges beginning December 2025 and notes that 53% of Poland's active real estate agents are women.