Long range opportunists

Ben Habib, founder and CEO, First Property Group: In Poland we have 22 properties, mostly offices. We own Oxford Tower, Blue Tower and Żoliborz Plaza in Warsaw. In Kraków we have Pilot Tower (formerly Alma Tower). We own a number of supermarkets in and around Warsaw. We have an office block in Lublin. We’ve just bought Kraków Business Park – now our largest property in Poland. We own Asseco’s headquarters in Gdynia on ul. Podolska and a small office block in Poznań. We also own two shopping centres, Corso in Świnoujście and Galeria Ostrowiec in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. And we also own a small shopping centre in Krasnystaw of 5,000 sqm, and a hypermarket in Łódź. The total value of our portfolio, excluding Kraków Business Park, comes to around EUR 320 mln. What is your approach to investing in Poland? We are looking to buy opportunities on the market – and our most recent purchase is Kraków Business Park, which we bought from its trustee in Septemb