Rent arrears amounted to PLN 175.6 million at the end of January, according to data collected in the BIG InfoMonitor Debtors Register. The average rent debt of a private person amounts to PLN 20,000, and of the company exceeds PLN 37,000. Between January 2020 and January this year, the rent arrears alone, visible in the register, increased by PLN 20 million to PLN 175.6 million. About PLN 15.7 million of this amount belongs to companies that rent premises. Although the debt increased, the number of debtors fell from over 9,100 to 8,500 people and companies.

"The smaller number of debtors for rent is the result of their increasing mobilization by managers of residential and commercial premises. Two solutions are used for this purpose: sending requests for payment, and if that does not work, then also entering the debtor in the BIG register, which is a consequence of already 30-day delays for at least PLN 200 in the case of private persons and PLN 500, if the debtor is a company," Łukasz Rączkowski from BIG InfoMonitor said.

According to BIG InfoMonitor data, women predominate among rental debtors (53 percent vs. 47 percent men). Also in the research, more women than men (23 percent vs. 20 percent) declared that last year they had problems with paying their current bills on time. According to the study, people aged 55-64 are also less able to cope with payments, as reported by 28 percent of respondents.

(ISBnews)