A tale of three cities
Investment & finance
Guy Barker, the principal of Arcona Capital
War is obviously devastating for real estate – both in terms of the physical damage to buildings and infrastructure as well as the ability to get new projects off the ground and attract new investment. But there’s one real estate investor that’s taking an active interest in the war-torn Ukrainian property market – Arcona Capital. We spoke to Guy Barker, the principal of the company, about why it is taking such a bold step
ALEX HAYES, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: You’ve been investing in Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and now Ukraine. What do these countries have in common?
Guy Barker, principal, Arcona Capital: We need to step back a bit. Arcona is a fund manager of seven or eight funds. Some of them invest in Holland, some in the Czech Republic, and some across the entire CEE region. As a business, we will operate across the whole of northern Europe, and we have offices in Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Germany and the Netherlands. At the moment, Arcona Property Fund, which has invested in Ukraine, has assets in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. It sold its most recent assets in Bulgaria last year. We’ve got two in Romania, we’re selling up in Slovakia for specific reasons, and we now consider the core markets for the fund to be Poland and the Czech Republic.
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