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Edition 10 (292) September 2024

Editorial

Mimosas and rain

Julian Tuwim wrote, and Czesław Niemen sang, that “autumn begins with mimosas”. And although the author probably mistook mimosas (which don’t even grow in Poland) for ordinary goldenrod (which does, at this time of the year), there can be no doubt that it’s now autumn. Unfortunately, in Poland and several other countries in the region, the end of summer also brought with it catastrophic flooding

Anna Korólczyk-Lewandowska
Small talk

Cautious optimism

Jan Jakub Zombirt, strategic analysis director, JLL

Anna Korólczyk-Lewandowska
Small talk

A quality partner

Jeremy Cordery, COO and co-founder, MDC2

Nathan North
Small talk

Distinguished by diversity

Sebastian Kieć, CEO, AFI Europe Poland

Anna Zamyłka
Small talk

15 and still growing

Grzegorz Chmielak, head of capital markets, valuation & advisory, Axi Immo

Nathan North
Feature

Platforms to success

Griffin Capital Partners now manages 18 different platforms from your office in Warsaw, with a gross asset value of EUR 8 bln and a total invested equity so far of over EUR 4 bln, making it the largest privately-owned investment and asset manager in private equity and real estate in the CEE region. We spoke to its managing partners and founders, Nebil Șenman and Maciej Dyjas, about what and where it’s planning to conquer next

Nathan North
Material partner

ESG – has the circle of blame been broken?

There was a time when market players tended to pass the buck when it came to sustainability, blaming others for the lack of progress. But has this now changed and why?

Stefaan Martel, the managing director of Bopro
ESG

Fewer footprints in the forest

Modern offices, warehouses and apartment blocks are springing up all around us. Buildings, however, are responsible for around 40 pct of global carbon dioxide emissions – and for them to be more eco-friendly, new trees and forests have to be planted to redress this

Magda Rachwald
Residential

In need of a bed for the night

Poland’s student population is once again increasing, but still they have nowhere to stay. Investors are beginning to move en masse into this potentially profitable but rather complex market

Alex Hayes
Urban planning

Gimme shelter

In January 2026, a bill is to be passed known as the Shelter Act by the Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA). Such shelters are to be in strategic locations such as underground car parks underneath apartment blocks and also in office buildings of particular importance to the defence industry. Additionally, developers will also be obliged to make space for such shelters in their projects

Julia Cudowska
The Expert Eye

No BREEAM, no way

In recent years, BREEAM certification has become the standard in the warehouse market, benefiting companies, their employees and the environment as a whole. It is a tool that helps clients assess the extent to which a building meets the requirements of sustainability, while providing employees with a comfortable and friendly working environment and ensuring the planet gains zero-carbon compliant facilities

Marcin Czerniewski, senior development manager, Prologis
Eurobuild Awards

The movers and shakers in the mix!

Meet the real estate players and experts who have made the biggest impact on the Polish scene over the last year and earned their place on the long list for this year’s ‘personality of the year’ award at the Eurobuild Awards 2024!

Nathan North
Endpiece

Zone of tolerance

Sometimes you really do need to be a desert island all of your own. To be immersed in silence (as my colleague Julia wrote about in this column recently), to look out at your favourite views, and to be concerned only with your own personal matters. But people are actually more like archipelagos – or more precisely, archipelagos interspersed with reefs on tectonic fault lines prone to quakes and dangerous eruptions

Magda Rachwald

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