Goodies on the top shelf

Zuzanna Wiak, Matei RomanShow me someone who doesn’t prefer to live in luxury, to take a daily dip in their own pool, to summon a concierge to satisfy their latest whim or to hang out in the evening in a club for the rich and privileged.  All of this is available – but only for a select few Specialists will tell you that top of the range apartment buildings in Poland are very few and far between. Magdalena Zakrzewska, head of the residential properties section at Knight Frank, puts it this way: “The luxury apartment market is like a reflection in a distorting mirror. There are no exclusive city streets as in London and New York, where deluxe apartment buildings of similar standards stand side by side. Here, upmarket projects are often built next to buildings of a deplorable standard and so immediately lose out by the very presence of such neighbours. There are also very few development plots in the city centre, which