Rapid response squad

You took on your position at JLL during a very challenging time for the market and the world as a whole. What do you recall about those early days? Mateusz A. Bonca, the CEO of JLL Poland: The end of 2020, when I took the helm at JLL in Poland, was indeed a turning point for the Polish real estate market. The global Covid-19 pandemic, he later war in Ukraine, and the high interest rate environment exerted a massive – in some respects even revolutionary – impact on the property market in our country. Up until then, it had benefited from over a decade of uninterrupted growth, but it then suddenly entered a phase of accelerated maturity. It was clear to me that this new reality would require an entirely fresh, cross-sectoral approach. This transformation meant gradually bringing the teams within our company closer together, and supplementing our competencies in areas that are becoming increasingly important in light of Poland’s ongoing energy transition – parti