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Restructuring for everyone

Commercial properties are some of the safest investment assets you can find. And yet, it is not always commercially reasonable to keep your portfolio as it is. Real estate business ...

Bolesław Kołodziejczyk, head of research and advisory
Cresa Polska

Retail readying itself for the ban

This will be a very specific year for the retail market in Poland – not only for the owners of retail properties, but also for their tenants and the companies that provide se ...

Yoram Reshef, the general director of the Blue City
Blue City

Minimum tax comes into force

Andrzej Zając, senior associate and solicitor for real estate, CMS We need to wait and see what the full impact of new regulations on the real estate market in Poland will be but ...

Andrzej Zając/ Piotr Nowicki,

Office market 2018 – great expectations, even greater challenges

The year 2017 was a very good one for all sectors of the real estate market. The large number of office projects delivered across Poland filled up quickly as occupier demand remain ...

Bolesław Kołodziejczyk, head of research and advisory
Cresa Polska

Od stycznia mieszkanie to przynajmniej 25 mkw.

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Jakub Nieckarz,
PVI

A missed opportunity

“The Ministry of Finance has announced that the introduction of the act on REITs has been put back and will not now come into force on January 1st 2018. Notably, Polish REITs ...

Przemysław Łachmaniuk, CEE capital markets director
CBRE

Is the autumn a good time to change jobs?

The job market in the real estate and construction sector has seen a big boom since the beginning of the year. However, the summer is not good a good time for recruitment since the ...

Oskar Kasiński, managing director
HR Design Group

CIT and the real estate investor

The planned amendment to the act on corporate income tax (CIT) could have a significant impact on the effective tax on real estate investment in Poland for a number of reasons. Fi ...

Katarzyna Kopczewska, partner
Baker McKenzie

When can a lease contract be terminated and how can his be avoided

Tenants have the upper hand in some shopping centres, but in most cases, particularly in successful retail schemes, they are in the weaker position when in conflict with their land ...

Szymon Łukasik,
Cresa Polska

Contractual penalties of up to 210 pct of the rent are too high

In a judgement on 25th November 2016 (file no.: V CSK 123/16) the Supreme Court decided that a landlord may not impose on a tenant a contractual penalty amounting to 210 pct of the ...

Maciej Żółtek, associate
Galt

Use of trademarks resembling registered trademarks in advertising and promotion of shopping malls

Where did this question and interest in the topic come from? Practice and observation show that shopping mall advertisements are often in the form of visualisations of a building w ...

Paweł Chojecki, advocate

Work on the Polish REIT is protracted. The bill raises a lot of controversy

In spite of the earlier announcements, the rulers have failed to pass the real estate rental companies act so that it entered into force at the beginning of January this year. Mayb ...

Robert Szczepanek, legal counsel
Causa Finita

Chain pharmacies are facing a major change. Chain expansion is up in the air

According to the amendment of the Polish Pharmaceutical Law drafted by members of the Polish Parliament, as early as next year, only pharmacists will be eligible for licenses to ru ...

Joanna Domoń-Kulas, radca prawny
Causa Finita Commercial Real Estate Law Firm

Cushman & Wakefield reaction to the result of the UK referendum on EU membership

The property sector has probably followed the EU referendum more closely than any other industry and has witnessed the impact of the uncertainty and speculation in the run up to th ...

John Forrester , EMEA chief executive
Cushman & Wakefield

Friday 13th

If you think that a finance, tax or accounting specialist couldn’t be superstitious, perhaps it’s time to think again. May 13th 2016 will go down in history of the Poli ...

Daniel Więckowski , tax manager
KR Group

Polish shopping centres ready for antiterrorism act

We have been monitoring the progress in the government’s work regarding the antiterrorism act. As soon as it enters into force we will be organizing training sessions for man ...

Justyna Williams, director of retail operations, property management, JLL Poland
JLL

EU Referendum - the economics of change

I have seen so many different estimates as to the impact of Brexit on the UK economy ranging from unrealistically hopeful – that it will lead over time to a 10 pct increase i ...

Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist
RICS

W ciągu czterech kwartałów podpisano umowy najmu 813 tys. mkw. tj. ponad 30 proc. więcej niż w 2014 roku, ale najbardziej widoczną zmianą był zdecydowany wzrost chłonności rynku. W ...

Elżbieta Czerpak,
Knight Frank

A fantastic year in recruitment

There's no question about it, 2015 was a fantastic year for everyone involved in real estate, not only in Poland, but across all of Central Europe! From an HR perspective, it has b ...

Mark Twomey, the managing partner
Tara HRC

2016 will see further office developments

The stable economic status of Poland and its growing importance in Central and Eastern Europe is still encouraging foreign investors to show a greater interest in our office market ...

Robert Mandżunowski, CEO
LHI