A winning streak or simply good spin?

EWA ANDRZEJEWSKAEditor Ialready have the full picture", one says. "That's nothing, this is just the frame of the picture", replies the other. As I think about the situation on the property market just before the industry meeting in Cannes this March, I recall this exchange of banter between the two friends, played by the famous and well-liked duo of Artur Barciś and Cezary Żak, in a production of Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple', staged in one of Warsaw's theatres. We can also get the whole picture in our sector by carefully examining all the factors, such as the post-crisis strategies being implemented by companies operating on the real estate market, in the banking sector and by state institutions. Only then might we finally be in a position to assess the situation.  All through last year Poland enjoyed some great press abroad. And in the rest of credit-crunched Europe, the image of a green island in the midst of a sea of countries marked red, proved highly appealing to both the ima