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Dom Development (DOM) — the future bets

Only two of these four are achievements — the land bank and the city entries are decisions; the record volumes and the demand recovery are the rate cycle handing the industry a good year.

A homebuilder's future is unusually concrete: it is the land it already owns, the cities it has decided to enter, and the interest rate its customers will be offered. Dom Development's bets are all three, and they are arriving at the same time — which is why the company is running the best numbers in its history.

Two decisions and two gifts5 000 homes a yearTarget; 2 382 sold in H1 2026, +17%PoznanFifth city; land for 228 unitsLand bank17 844 units, -6% in a yearRate cuts6 cuts, 1,75 points; not Dom's doing
The land bank and the city entries were chosen; the record volumes were largely the rate cycle.

The ambition is scale: management has put a figure on it, roughly 5 000 units sold a year within two to three years1, against a first half of 2026 that already delivered a record 2 382 net units — up 17% and the eighth consecutive quarter above a thousand2. The expansion is geographic: after Warsaw, the Tri-City, Wrocław and Kraków, Dom has entered Poznań, with land for its first 228 units there at 30 June 20263. Underneath both sits a land bank of 17 844 units at 30 June 2026, much of it bought during the freeze when rivals could not buy at all, though it has shrunk 6% in a year as building outran buying5. And the tailwind is monetary: Poland's rate-setting council cut six times for a combined 1,75 percentage points, which with wage growth materially improved what buyers can borrow4.

The thing to hold onto is that only two of those four are achievements. The land bank and the city entries are decisions management made and executed. The volume record and the demand recovery are substantially the rate cycle handing this industry a good year — the same cycle that, running the other way in 2022 and 2023, cut mortgage applications by two-thirds.

So grade this page against the cycle rather than with it. Watch quarterly net sales toward the 5 000-a-year pace, watch whether Poznań gets bought at a sensible price rather than a fashionable one, and watch the land bank keep growing while land is expensive — because a developer that only buys when buying is easy has no advantage at all. Dom's whole claim is that it does the opposite; the next downturn is when that claim gets tested again.

Moat trajectory: Widening

Record sales, a land bank sized for four years of production, a fifth city being acquired and a rate cycle now working in the company's favour — everything is moving the right way at once. That is also the warning: two of the four are the cycle rather than the company, and the same cycle running backwards is what made 2022 and 2023 brutal.

The number that tests this moat
Reported
Units in stock available for sale
4 694 at 30 June 2026, +24%

The 5 000-a-year ambition needs supply; stock growing a quarter a year is the pipeline for it.

Source: Dom Development management report for the six months ended 30 June 2026 ↗
✦ Future bets — beyond today's moat
✦ FUTURE BET 01
Five Thousand Homes a Year
Scale in homebuilding wins the best land and the steadiest contractors — but a developer never fully controls its own volume, because buyers must…
✦ FUTURE BET 02
Poznań & the Fifth City
Entering a fifth city in a hot market is the opposite of the counter-cyclical trade Dom is famous for — the price paid per buildable unit will say…
✦ FUTURE BET 03
A Land Bank for 20 000 Homes
Four years of future revenue already in the ground — and the timing of its purchase, not the land itself, is what determines the margin on every home.
✦ FUTURE BET 04
Riding the Rate Cuts
The most powerful force acting on Dom in 2026 was decided in a different building — the cycle sets the volume, and the operator only sets the margin.
References
  1. ReportedManagement describes ~5 000 units a year as a two-to-three-year perspective, on a land bank with capacity for about 20 000 units.
    Dom Development management commentary — annual sales of roughly 5 000 units described as a two-to-three-year perspective; land bank carrying capacity for about 20 000 units; acquisition under way on a new market — 2026 · publ. 2026 · source ↗
  2. ReportedH1 2026: a record 2 382 net units sold, up 17%, with an eighth consecutive quarter above 1 000.
    Dom Development H1 2026 sales — 2 382 net units sold, up 17% year on year and the best half in the company's history; Q2 sales of 1 221 net units marked an eighth consecutive quarter above 1 000 units — H1 2026 · publ. 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedDom has entered Poznan, with land for its first 228 units there at 30 June 2026.
    Dom Development management report for the six months ended 30 June 2026 - sales, deliveries, stock, units under construction and land bank by city; revenue, net profit, gross margin, net cash, deferred income, dividend; entry into Poznan — H1 2026 · publ. 2026 · source ↗
  4. ReportedSix rate cuts totalling 1,75 percentage points materially improved buyers' borrowing capacity.
    Dom Development Group Management Board report — the Monetary Policy Council cut rates six times by a combined 1,75 percentage points, which together with continued wage growth significantly improved customers' borrowing capacity and supported a recovery in housing demand — 2025-2026 · publ. 2026 · source ↗
  5. ReportedThe land bank was 17 844 units at 30 June 2026, down 6% in a year.
    Dom Development management report for the six months ended 30 June 2026 - sales, deliveries, stock, units under construction and land bank by city; revenue, net profit, gross margin, net cash, deferred income, dividend; entry into Poznan — H1 2026 · publ. 2026 · source ↗
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