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Dom Development (DOM) — threat to the moat

On the portals, every developer is a row in the same table.

The advantage of a name that 'does the selling' is being eroded from an unexpected direction: the online property portals where nearly every Polish buyer now begins. On a listings site, Dom's apartments appear on the same screen, under the same filters, as every rival's, compared on price, location, and photos — and the buyer's discovery no longer runs primarily through the developer's own brand and channels. That commoditizes the top of the sales funnel and lets a cheaper or better-located project from a lesser name win the click regardless of reputation. The brand still helps close the sale — 4 448 net sales in 2025 was the best year in the company's history1 — but the portals have flattened the playing field for getting found, chipping at the low-acquisition-cost edge that reputation used to guarantee.

Units in stock, Warsaw and Tricity1 332Warsaw 20252 207Warsaw 20261 041Tricity 20251 259Tricity 2026Dom Development H1 2026 management report; 30 June each year
Warsaw stock rose 66% in a year: more flats competing for the same portal searches.
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  1. Reported4 448 net sales in 2025 — the best year on record.
    Dom Development FY2025 results announcement (17 March 2026) — record net profit 654,2m zł (+15%), revenue 3,26bn zł (+2,8%), operating profit 801m zł, net margin ~20% (from 18%); net sales 4 448 units, the highest in the company's 30-year history — FY2025 · publ. March 17, 2026 · source ↗
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