Real Estate in Poland - NYTimes.com Adam Lach for The New York Times A seven-bedroom home near Gdansk in northern Poland, built in 2011 to resemble a traditional Polish manor house, is on the market for $2.5 million. This year-old lakefront property, with three buildings and a total of 8,400 square feet, was designed to resemble a traditional Polish manor house, with a thatched roof and Tudor-style half-timbering in Douglas fir. It sits on nearly four acres in the tiny town of Szteklin, near the Tuchola Forest National Park, about an hour's drive from Gdansk. At the insistence of the seller, a history buff, salvaged materials were used where possible. These include bricks from a German manor house built around 1800 and Caucasian pine from a 17th-century granary. The floors and doors are oak. The furniture comes with the property, and the eclectic assortment includes pieces dating to 1850. The foyer of the central building opens to a towering spiral staircase made of oak. Beyond is a living room with a double-height vaulted ceiling, a mezzanine with a carved wooden railing, and floor-to-ceiling windows with sliding doors leading outside. The room has a traditional northern European wood-burning masonry stove covered in white tiles. On one side of the foyer are a dining room and an oak-lined kitchen with a traditional bread oven; on the other, are an office, a bathroom and a smaller living room. In addition to a balcony at the front of the house, the upstairs hallway accesses two bedrooms, each with a walk-in closet and a bathroom. The main building is flanked by the other two, one housing bedrooms and kitchens, the other equipped for recreation, with a fitness room. The residential building, built in the same half-timbered style with a thatched roof, is reached via a partially enclosed walkway. Several rooms in this wing can be used as bedrooms; there are also two bathrooms and three kitchens, one of them lined with wooden cabinets dating to 1750, and equipped with a functioning 200-year-old ice box. The rest of the building has two garages, utility rooms and a room storing a coal-fired boiler. The recreation building, on the opposite side, is currently being outfitted with a sauna and a hot tub, according to the agent. Similarly, a large area is set aside for a pool that has yet to be installed. The two other structures on the property are a porter's lodge at the gate, and a roofed dugout shelter with an ornate German door from 1800. This dugout has a wine cellar and a storage room for food preparation. The manor fronts on Borzechowo Lake and has a large dock serving as a yacht marina. Roads on the property are made of red-granite cobblestone from a 19th-century German bridge, said Thomasz Laskowski, an agent with Metrohouse & Partners, which has the listing. The town of Szteklin has about 100 residents and some small shops, but the nearest sizable town, Starogard Gdanski, with 50,000 residents, is about three miles away. The main highway to Gdansk, Poland's principal port on the Baltic Sea, is about nine miles away, and the drive to Gdansk and its airport takes about an hour. Poland's housing market has yet to recover from the global financial crisis. In the years leading up to it, particularly in 2004 when the country joined the European Union, the tri-city area of Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot saw steep increases in home prices. The housing bubble popped when banks severely tightened lending standards as a result of the troubles elsewhere, said Kazimierz Kirejczyk, the president of the board of REAS, a Warsaw residential real estate consulting and research firm. "After 2008, the prices decreased gradually," Mr. Kirejczyk said. We can estimate - and it depends on location and type of property - between 15 and 25 percent. The market hasn't rebounded completely and prices may drop further still, said Marcin Plazinski, the associate director of research at Emmerson Real Estate, which has headquarters in Warsaw. Because some property developers anticipated a recovery in 2010 and 2011, they embarked on development projects, adding to the oversupply of housing. Meanwhile, he said, banks have yet to loosen their stringent lending requirements.