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Warsaw landlords eager for early lease renewals

Landlords of Warsaw’s office buildings don’t want to stand idly by as hundreds of thousands of square metres of new office space are comes onto the market in upcoming m ...

Kamil Komoński, senior advisor
Cresa Polska

Threat of "Retail Apocalypse". Not as Black as it is Painted

The "retail apocalypse" wave across the pond claims more and more victims. Economists and analysts warn that the effects of changes will sooner or later start to affect the Old Con ...

Michał Ciapka, member of the board
Higasa Properties

Seeking added value

Rising occupier expectations and high-tech developments are forcing industrial and logistics developers to continually deliver cutting-edge facilities that incorporate disruptive t ...

Maciej Szczepański, business development manager in the Industrial and Logistics Agency
Cushman & Wakefield

E-commerce still rocketing up

Back in 2000, Poland had just a few hundred thousand square metres of modern warehouse space and e-commerce was only budding with Polish złoty retail sales in the tens of millions. ...

Damian Kolata, associate in the industrial and logistics department
Cushman & Wakefield

What is the future of the hotel market in Poland

In Poland, Boutique hotels as well as those that offer a limited service for short-stay travellers, will continue to be developed, while large cities will continue to attract more ...

Andrzej Szymczyk, Associate Director, hospitality department
Walter Herz

Retail Apocalypse

Retail Apocalypse is a term that refers to a revolution sweeping through the American retail ecosystem resulting in bankruptcies or serious problems for many retail chains. Such co ...

Sławomir Lisiecki, legal advisor, partner
Argon

Taking the side-exit from energy price rises

Most of the expenses of using any type of building for any user are made up of the electricity, gas and heating costs. For some time now, there has been much talk about the price i ...

Maurycy Szwajkajzer ,
Enreco

How hotel brands are responding to the changing needs of their customers

An app that allows you to order room service by tapping an emoji, a hotel lobby that resembles a co-working office, a bar that serves regional beers, and spaces for the local commu ...

Agata Janda, head of hotel advisory
JLL

MIPIM 2019: technologies, human and new challenges

This year's MIPIM was extremely sunny. However, we are talking not only about the fantastic weather that welcomed us in Cannes, but also about the optimistic mood that you could se ...

Daniel Bienias, managing director, Poland & CEE
CBRE

Experience the shopping centre of the future

Managing the shopping centre of the future will have more to do with content management using social media than with real estate. Shopping centres will be designed as strategies fo ...

Grzegorz Rogacki,
ARS Retail Group

The legal challenges of Proptech

New technology in the real estate sector, known as Proptech, is generating increasing interest in Poland. Proptech is becoming a hot topic on the market, with start-ups providing p ...

Grzegorz Skowroński, Counsel
Wolf Theiss

Keeping real estate clean

The purchase of property has the potential to be used by organised criminals to launder the proceeds of criminal activity. This is due to the significant amounts of criminal funds ...

Kinga Barchoń,
RICS, PwC, PINK

Time For Rental Growth

Yield compression has been dramatic over the last 24 months within the Polish industrial market whilst the added attraction of ‘rental growth’ has often been overlooked ...

John Palmer, The head of industrial investment
Savills

Portfolio transactions driving investment

“The past year can be seen as an exceptionally surprising period in the history of the investment market in Poland. The volume of commercial property acquisitions exceeded EU ...

Ports to fuel warehouse demand

PLN 170 mln was spent on the upgrade of the Gdansk seaport in 2018. In upcoming years, nearly PLN 700 mln is expected to be expended on further improvements, substantially subsidiz ...

Michał Rafałowicz, Head for the Pomeranian Region
Cresa Polska

Deweloperzy, korzystając z trybu wprowadzonej 22 sierpnia br. specustawy, omijają wiele czasochłonnych procedur i mogą szybciej oraz w prostszy sposób uzyskać stosowne pozwolenia n ...

Joanna Sebzda-Załuska,
GWW

What they're talking about at Expo Real

Due to prime product becoming increasingly scarce and continued yield compression in many mature markets, investors will go to this year’s Expo Real in search of alternative ...

Tomasz Buras,
Savills

IoT set to transform e commerce

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been created by the proliferation of mobile devices, the increase in computing power as well as current data collection (Big Data) and processing t ...

Dagmara Sobańska, country manager Poland
Sofort

Five questions about changes in perpetual usufruct

The bill entitled ‘the transformation of the right of perpetual usufruct into the right of ownership for land that has been built upon for the purposes of residential use&rsq ...

Marcin Krasoń,
Obido.pl

Office market booms in Kraków

With an office stock level of over 1 mln sqm, Kraków remains the largest regional market in Poland. The city is growing quickly and is attractive to both developers and tenants. Th ...

Anna Galicka-Bieda, partner, regional director
Colliers International