Standing alone

Some companies, like PricewaterhouseCoopers, take up their 8,000 sqm as anchor tenants in buildings such as International Business Centre, where they'll have the strongest profile in that particular building. Their presence in Warsaw won't however be as visible as that of Hermes, who with the help of Colliers International, are on the look out for land to build their own office premises "Having your own building is free advertising," says Jerzy Wysocki of Knight Frank Nieruchomości, "and it also creates a number of possibilities for the company to develop the building according to their needs." This would certainly seem to apply to firms like Microsoft, who'll be moving into Jerozolimskie Company House 2 later this year, but in the case of PricewaterhouseCoopers, who Knight Frank represented in their deal to go to IBC, their profile will have arguably been heightened by taking themselves from their small company house on Nowogrodska 68, to a larger bui