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Dom Development builds and sells apartments in Polish cities. That is the entire business: buy land, obtain permits, hire contractors, build blocks of flats, sell them to people who mostly need a mortgage to complete. There is no recurring revenue, no subscription, no annuity — each home is sold once, and the company starts again. It is the oldest sort of business in this collection, and the most exposed to something no management controls: the interest rate its customers are offered.

The revenue map is a map of cities. Of 2025's roughly 3,26 billion złoty in revenue¹, about 1,75 billion złoty came from Warsaw — the home market Dom has led since 1996 — with roughly 0,60 billion złoty from the Tri-City through the Euro Styl business, 0,45 billion złoty from Wrocław and 0,37 billion złoty from Kraków and elsewhere. Warsaw is more than half the company, which is both the source of its position and the shape of its concentration.

What the model produces when it works is visible in the numbers: net profit around 0,65 billion złoty on those revenues, a mid-teens net margin that is high for homebuilding, and a dividend that has made this one of the more reliable payers on the Warsaw exchange². What it produces when the cycle turns is equally visible in the record — Poland's policy rate went from 0,1% to 6,75% between 2021 and 2022 and mortgage applications fell by roughly 71%³, which is the kind of demand shock no operational excellence offsets.

The market prices the business accordingly: around nine times earnings⁴. That is not a judgment about Dom Development's quality — it is what equity markets pay for cyclical earnings that could halve, and it is roughly what every listed homebuilder trades at near the top of a housing upswing.

So the question these pages examine is what, if anything, survives the cycle. The Moat weighs the land bank and scale, the brand and delivery record, the balance-sheet discipline that let Dom buy land while rivals could not, and the geographic reach — and rates it narrow, because those are real advantages inside an industry that has none. The Future Bets follow where the company is heading: five thousand homes a year, a fifth city, a land bank of 17 844 units that is shrinking, and a rate cycle currently blowing in its favour. Its four cities are taken in turn as revenue lines in The Revenue Lines.