You need a woman in a crisis

According to the latest data from residential consultancy REAS, as many as 46,100 homes were being offered by developers in Poland at the end of Q2 this year. In Warsaw the number reached 18,500, of which 4,000 were finished. The number of homes on sale is gradually growing, at the end of Q1 there were 42,000 of them. "There were not so many apartments available even when the market was at its most euphoric. The current levels have broken the 2008 record, when we were still in a residential boom. Capital city developers sold as many as 6,160 apartments during H1 this year, whereas in the years 2007-2010 they sold between 11,500 and 12,000 per year on average," reveals Katarzyna Kuniewicz, research director at REAS. Who will buy these beautiful apartments?Who is going to buy all these homes? And who decides whether to buy them or not? Increasingly the answer seems to be: women. For Warsaw-based developer Dolcan, the majority of contracts are still signed with married couples. However,