An Apartment in Muranów — How It Differs from the Rest of Śródmieście

An apartment in Muranów cost on average about 17-18 thousand PLN/m² in the spring of 2025 — that is 2-3 thousand PLN/m² less than the average for the whole of Śródmieście, where prices in areas such as Nowy Świat or Plac Trzech Krzyży reached 22-24 thousand PLN/m². Administratively Muranów lies in Śródmieście (partly in Wola), but its character is completely different from the representative city centre: it is almost entirely post-war estate development from the 1950s and 1960s, with plenty of greenery, calmer streets and less tourist traffic. The nearest metro is the Ratusz Arsenał station (M1), and the landmark for the whole neighbourhood is the POLIN Museum on ul. Anielewicza. Below we show exactly how Muranów differs from the rest of the district — in prices, in urban planning and in terms of who lives here — and where to look for further information about Śródmieście as a whole.

Where exactly is Muranów and how does it differ from the centre of Śródmieście?

Muranów is a historic area in the northern part of Śródmieście, whose notional boundaries are marked by al. „Solidarności” to the south, ul. Okopowa and al. Jana Pawła II to the west, the railway tracks to the north and the streets Bonifraterska and Miodowa to the east. In the Miejski System Informacji (city information system) the area is divided into two auxiliary units: „Muranów” on the Śródmieście side and „Nowolipki” on the Wola side — an important distinction, because some listings using the phrase „Muranów” in fact concern a different administrative district.

Unlike the representative strip of Śródmieście along the Royal Route (Nowy Świat, Krakowskie Przedmieście, Plac Trzech Krzyży), Muranów is neither a tourist nor a business axis. It is above all a residential district — without large office buildings, but with a predominance of schools, kindergartens and neighbourhood shops. It borders directly on the Old Town (about 15-20 minutes on foot) and on Żoliborz, which makes it a kind of link between the historic centre and the more intimate districts to the north.

Why do the buildings of Muranów look different from the rest of Śródmieście?

The answer lies in history: before the war Muranów was the most densely built-up part of Warszawa, inhabited in about 90% by the Jewish population — in 1938, 12.4% of the entire capital’s population lived here on 1.2% of the city’s area. During the occupation the Warsaw Ghetto was created on this land, and after the ghetto uprising of 1943 the whole of the built environment was completely destroyed. Only a few individual buildings on Stawki, Dzika and Żelazna streets survived, along with the church of St Augustine.

After the war the authorities decided not to recreate the pre-war street layout, but to raise a new estate directly on the rubble of the ghetto — hence the characteristic rises in the terrain in some places. The estate was built in stages until the 1960s to designs in the spirit of modernism and socialist realism (among others by Bohdan Lachert), and in the following decades came the estates on ul. Dzika and Inflancka and newer buildings along al. Jana Pawła II. The result: wide streets, low (4-12 storey) point and estate blocks, plenty of space between buildings — the complete opposite of the dense, block-based tenement houses that dominate the remaining part of Śródmieście, including Powiśle, which neighbours Muranów.

What does an apartment in Muranów really cost in 2025?

Data from specific addresses confirm that Muranów is clearly cheaper than the flagship parts of Śródmieście. The building at ul. Anielewicza 17 was valued at about 17.3 thousand PLN/m² (spring 2025), and the one at ul. Andersa 6 at about 17.6-17.9 thousand PLN/m². For comparison, the average for the Muranów estate as a whole was estimated at about 17.1 thousand PLN/m², while the entire Śródmieście district recorded an average of about 19.5 thousand PLN/m² at the time (listing data, spring 2025), and the Nowy Świat and Plac Trzech Krzyży area 22-24 thousand PLN/m².

Location	Indicative price (2025)
Muranów (estate, average)	about 17.1 thousand PLN/m²
Muranów, specific buildings (Andersa, Anielewicza)	15-19 thousand PLN/m²
Śródmieście — district average	about 19.5-20 thousand PLN/m²
Nowy Świat / Plac Trzech Krzyży	22-24 thousand PLN/m²
Powiśle (for comparison)	about 19.6 thousand PLN/m²

The difference of 2-3 thousand PLN/m² between Muranów and the rest of Śródmieście has held for several seasons and stems mainly from the character of the buildings — apartments in post-war blocks made of prefabricated concrete slabs or rubble concrete are valued lower than restored pre-war tenement houses or new premium apartment buildings. We describe the wider price context across the whole district and the structure of the primary and secondary markets in the article on apartments for sale in Śródmieście.

How do you get from Muranów to the centre and to other districts?

Muranów is well connected, though it has no metro station of its own in the very heart of the estate. Two M1 line stations cover the area from both sides: Ratusz Arsenał on the southern edge (about 10-15 minutes on foot to the POLIN Museum) and Dworzec Gdański on the northern side. This is complemented by a dense tram network — lines 15, 17, 18, 33 and 35 run along ul. Andersa and al. Solidarności, connecting Muranów directly with the Old Town, the Warszawa Centralna station and Żoliborz.

By comparison, the rest of Śródmieście (the Centrum, Świętokrzyska and Nowy Świat area) has direct access to the intersection of the M1 and M2 lines at the Świętokrzyska/Centrum station, which makes it somewhat more convenient for transfers in various directions across the city. From Muranów you reach the Świętokrzyska interchange by metro from Ratusz Arsenał in 2-3 minutes, so in practice the difference is small — this is still one of the best-connected parts of Warszawa.

Who lives in and rents apartments in Muranów?

The profile of residents differs from the one typical of the representative parts of Śródmieście. Among tenants, the majority are:

• people working in the centre who are looking for a shorter commute without Nowy Świat prices,
• couples and singles who value the quiet of an estate combined with proximity to the Old Town,
• students and some foreigners — thanks to relatively lower rents for such a central location,
• families with children, who appreciate the schools, kindergartens and green areas in the immediate neighbourhood.

Buyers are most often people who treat Muranów as a practical, „everyday” address close to the centre — with no ambitions for a representative tenement house, but with a park outside the window — as well as investors focused on stable, long-term rental. This sets it apart from Nowy Świat or Plac Trzech Krzyży, where short-term rental and premium clients account for a larger share. You will find a general overview of the tenant profile across the whole district in the text on renting apartments in Śródmieście, and we explain the rules on the contract, the kaucja (security deposit) and handing over the unit in the for tenants section.

Which specific places are worth knowing when looking for an apartment in Muranów?

The notional centre of the estate is the triangle of gen. Władysława Andersa, Zamenhofa and Anielewicza streets, home to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (ul. Anielewicza 6) and the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. Nearby it is also worth knowing the streets Dzielna, Dubois, Inflancka, Karmelicka, Lewartowskiego, Miła, Nowolipki, Stawki and Świętojerska — these are the estate’s main residential addresses.

There is no shortage of greenery: Ogród Krasińskich, the Willy Brandt square, the Marek Edelman square and the Garden of the Righteous are intimate, well-kept areas within a few hundred metres of most of the blocks. To the east Muranów borders Plac Krasińskich (courts, historic buildings), and to the west ul. Okopowa and the Jewish cemetery. This neighbourhood of history and everyday estate life is what most strongly distinguishes Muranów from the other parts of Śródmieście — there is no equivalent here of either Nowy Świat or office-filled Powiśle.

Summary: is Muranów a good choice compared with the rest of Śródmieście?

Muranów is a sensible option for those who want to live in Śródmieście but do not want (or cannot afford) to pay the prices typical of Nowy Świat or Plac Trzech Krzyży. In exchange for a price per square metre lower by more than ten per cent, you get good metro and tram connections, a surprisingly large amount of greenery for the city centre and a calmer, more estate-like rhythm of life — at the cost of less representative, post-war architecture instead of historic tenement houses.

If you are looking for a specific apartment in Muranów or wondering whether this neighbourhood suits your needs better than other parts of Śródmieście, take a look at our catalogue of listings — we will help match the location to your budget and lifestyle. The allproperty team is available around the clock, so if you happen to come across an interesting Muranów listing in the evening and want to check the price quickly against neighbouring streets such as Andersa or Anielewicza, just call +48 666 866 468 (a second number is also available: +48 692 649 839) — we will answer even outside the standard working hours of real-estate offices.