A bird’s eye view

In the final showdown with Colliers International, it was Knight Frank that eventually came out on top. The prize was a contract for the management of a commercial area of over 190,000 sqm, which is managed by German fund Deka Immobilien acting for several open-ended real estate funds, in one of the biggest property management tenders of the last few years. “The investor invited all the agencies to participate in the tender when it was announced, as long ago as December 2009. For us it meant months of hard work and preparing documentation. Eventually our offer went head-to-head with the proposal of our colleagues at Colliers International,” explains Bartłomiej Łepkowski, head of property management at Knight Frank. The team he led has previous experience of managing this company’s real estate. The cooperation started in 2005 with Deka Immobilien’s first purchases in the country, when it bought an office building housing the headquarters of Kredyt Bank on ul. K