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New brands poised to enter the market

We estimate that in 2015 around 80 new hotels will be added to the hotel market in Poland. And it will not only be the local hotel chains who have grown dynamically, such as Puro o ...

Janusz Mitulski, partner
Horwath HTL Poland

This will be a year of stabilisation on the retail market

I do not expect any great revolution to take place on the retail market in 2015. I think that the most difficult years are behind us and this will be one of relative stabilisation. ...

Agnieszka Michalczewska, partner
Aspenn

2015 to be a record year?

Even though the 1.1 mln sqm of warehouse space completed in 2014 was a clear improvement on 2013 – and 2015 could beat that and be a record year. Almost 690,000 sqm was under ...

Maciej Chmielewski, partner, director of the industrial and logistics agency
Colliers International

Franc reality depresses home sales

The soaring value of the Swiss franc after the euro rate cap was removed last week does not only present problems for those in Poland paying mortgage instalments in this currency & ...

Marcin Jańczuk,
Metrohouse

Investment pledge relief: devil is in the detail

Work on the Polish urban planning and construction code is in progress. The proposed solutions are set to provide a considerable deregulation of the current investment process. Thi ...

Michał Pietuszko,
DLA Piper

Polish logistics market buzzes with activity

2014 has been seeing an increased activity on the Polish logistics market. There is a lot going on in both warehousing sales and lease transactions. This naturally translates into ...

Mark Twomey, the managing partner
Tara HRC

Building scale and presence

The CEE investment market has maintained its growth momentum from 2013, with transaction volumes remaining robust. According to data published by JLL, in H1 2014 there was an app. ...

Bożena Krawczyk, investment director for Central Europe
Segro

A more personal approach is needed

Among the activities usually regarded as increasing the turnover of shopping centre tenants, there are all the different kinds of competitions and lotteries that are held, as well ...

Agnieszka Mielcarz, head of retail management department
Knight Frank

Check the brand before you buy

Some foreign investors treat market analysis seriously, as an integral part of the investment process; while others – do not. Many investors check the indexes necessary for t ...

Helen Maguire, the managing director of
Toolbox Marketing Poland

New investment possibilities in Special Economic Zones

A new chapter is opening in the history of special economic zones in Poland. We now have twelve years to implement a new set of regulations and principles for their functioning. Pu ...

Michał Sikora, the consultant responsible for land, technical issues and special economic zones
Cushman & Wakefield

Want to relax? Pay!

Venice and Barcelona are the two most expensive European cities popular among holiday makers. A week’s stay in a double room near Saint Mark’s Square costs almost PLN 5 ...

Jakub Potocki,
Axi Immo

Warehouse market matures for speculative projects

The supply of space on the warehouse market now amounts to almost 8 mln sqm, with around 600,000 sqm under construction. We expect a few more projects to be launched soon, some of ...

Beata Hryniewska, director head of business development in industrial and logistics
CBRE

Kołobrzeg now more expensive than Miami

In July, hotel prices in Poland have increased even by 79 pct as compared to the previous month, according to the latest research by trivago.pl. The record surge was reported in Us ...

Justyna Snieżek, associate PR Poland
Trivago.pl

TOTEX not OPEX, nor CAPEX. Saving on cities’ investment tasks

While taking the floor in the discussion on how to find savings in the municipal investment projects or, in other words, how to better rationalize investment expenditures, I would ...

Krzysztof Kałuża, director of operations
ECM Group Polska

Residential real estate valuation and its influence on the mortgage market

The influence of real estate valuations on the mortgage market and the connection between the two elements are very clear nowadays. However, it needs to be remembered that this was ...

Dariusz Książak, president of the board
Emmerson Evaluation

Does it make sense to employ a concept architect in the CEE Region?

A complex undertaking, such as a mixed-use development, requires a suitable professional team to design the project. In many instances the concept architect is an integral part of ...

Marek Tryzybowicz, the owner
Bose International Planning and Architecture

Quantum leap in technology and organisation in the construction industry

I can sum up the last quarter of a century as a success in terms of the development of the construction sector in Poland. The transition from a crude and ineffective system to a mo ...

Piotr Grabowicz, president of the management board
MCKB

CE region is present in every single business plan of the key global companies

The key features of the CE industrial property market today are: stability, trust and European standards. Ten years ago, we had a very limited number of real industrial professiona ...

Ferdinand Hlobil, the head of the CE industrial team
Cushman & Wakefield

Poland’s accession to the European Union has had a huge impact on all sectors of the economy, including the retail market. Becoming a member states has helped us to build con ...

Mariusz Czerwiak, associate director of the retail agency
JLL

We have become a civilised and safe economy

It has been ten years since Poland’s accession to the European Union. In this period the office market has experienced dynamic growth. Total office stock in Poland in 2004 am ...

Paweł Skałba, senior partner, director of office agency
Colliers International