The conference was opened by Sean Doyle, the director of capital markets at CBRE Poland, who outlined the situation on the investment market in CEE countries to those in attendance. Poland looks good against this background, even though it may not be able to repeat its all-time high volume of last year.
The first panel, entitled #agoodchange.pl, was moderated by Tomasz Trzósło, the managing director of JLL in Poland, and generated a great deal of heat. Its panellists shared their assessment of the impact of the current political situation on the market and concluded that a global look at the market and the international environment was needed. Przemysław Krych, the president of Griffin Group, recommended slowing down the legislative processes and more consistency. Katarzyna Zawodna, the president of Skanska Commercial Development Europe, made a similar point and hoped that a strong legal framework would be maintained and Poland would continue to be perceived as a partner rather tha