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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

Logistics must keep up with e-commerce

2014 will be a year of dynamic development and transformation on the e-commerce market. The turnover of Polish online trading in 2012 was estimated at PLN 22.9 bln. It increased to ...

Katarzyna Pyś-Fabiańczyk, director of the warehouse and logistic area department
BNP Paribas Real Estate

Regional markets have much to offer

Outside Warsaw, Wrocław and Kraków are also mature markets with a broad offer of office facilities. The supply of the office space in these two cities constitutes over three quarte ...

Peter Obernhuber, board member
UBM

For the more discerning tenant

Year after year we’ve been seeing a continuous growth in interest regarding office leases in the renovated tenement houses in Warsaw’s city centre. In my opinion this i ...

Radosław Sieroń, president of the management board/partner
Mermaid Properties

The tenants are kings

The latest skyscraper projects in Warsaw are now taking shape. These include Q22 from Echo Investment and the Warsaw Spire from Ghelamco. A joint project by PHN and Hochtief Develo ...

Piotr Stark, board member
Hochtief Development Poland

Crimean crisis impedes Russian investment

There are a number of channels through which the current political crisis in Ukraine is affecting the commercial real estate market in Russia. In the short term we can see tenants ...

Valentin Gavrilov, the director of research
CBRE, Russia

Flexible bonds

According to our analyses, in 2013 developers in Poland issued corporate bonds worth app. PLN 1.8 bln. This is almost 40 pct more than the year before (PLN 1.3 bln). It is a slight ...

Jarosław Riopka, bond instrument expert
Espirito Santo Investment Bank