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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

Residential construction moves up a gear

How much has the level of new residential construction grown recently? 140 pct – according to data published by the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS). This was the incr ...

Bartosz Turek, head analyst
HRE Investments

Polish investors set to be the natural buyers

Poland’s economy has significantly benefited from ten years of European Union integration. The stability and assurance of EU membership has helped provide a continual flow of ...

Colin Waddell, managing director for Poland
CBRE

Looking for attractive land

We are planning to allocate PLN 180 mln for the purchase of plots for new projects. So we are looking for attractive land properties in Warsaw and Wrocław. In the case of Warsaw we ...

Jarosław Szanajca, CEO, president of the management board
Dom Development

Ten years of Poland in the European Union – a view from the residential market

Ten years in the European Union has changed many aspects of life in Poland, including the residential market. In this period we have emerged from through two main stages. The first ...

Dariusz Książak, president of the board
Emmerson Evaluation

Weather affects hotel occupancy

Poles as well as residents of neighbouring countries more and more often opt for short and frequent excursions, the so-called prolonged weekends because their professional situatio ...

Janusz Mitulski, partner
Horwath HTL Poland

It's all kicking of Wrocław

Despite a considerable improvement in the situation on the warehouse market in terms of the growing demand and availability of capital, we are still not seeing the construction of ...

Robert Dobrzycki, managing partner Europe
Panattoni Europe

Industrial construction in Poland – stagnation or development?

The industrial construction market is developing all the time and in Poland the demand in this field is becoming more and more evident. However, it is an extremely difficult market ...

Jens Winter, president of the board
CCM Copla Construction Management

Why passive construction in Poland has not been successful

The passive construction concept appeared in Poland around 2000, while the largest wave of interest in passive houses was in 2006–2008. After nearly fourteen years of promoti ...

Ryszard Piotrowski, specialist on practical aspects of passive construction

Small is popular

The small shopping centre market still has much potential and it will keep on developing. According to our analysis, the residents of smaller towns want to have popular and well-li ...

Aleksander Walczak, the president of the board
Dekada

Is architecture an important factor in the success of shopping centres?

There are many opinions about what makes good architecture, different tastes and different likes. Naturally, it is difficult to reach any consensus about this. However, let’s ...

Paweł W. Graliński, architect, owner of the
Arch Magic studio

Russian investment volumes forecast to be lowest since before the credit crunch

The political and economic uncertainty of Q1 2014 has had a significant negative influence not only on Russian growth forecasts (according to our estimates the Russian GDP forecast ...

Tom Mundy, head of research
JLL Russia & CIS

Money is not everything

A few days ago IFMA Polska and PropertyTalents announced the preliminary results of a survey of employees within the facility management sector in Poland. Most of those surveyed wo ...

Tomasz Kwiatkowski, president of the board
IFMA Polska