"Poland, since joining the EU, has become more and more stable of a market to invest in. Foreign direct investment group 100% year over year," Magda Cieliczko, operations director for the Warsaw-based company, tells GlobeSt.com. "We have at least five major cities where there is a lot of investment and construction going on."
Colliers International Poland specializes in tenant representation for the office and industrial sectors, with highly recognized professionals in valuation, property management, asset management, investment advisory, hospitality and retail, the only one of its practice groups seeded by both third-party and tenant rep assignments. Colliers International is a worldwide affiliation of independently owned and operated companies. It has 267 offices in 57 countries.
Hadley Dean remains managing partner, a post he's held since 2005. The 13-year veteran began his career as an industrial broker in the London office of King Sturge, transferred to Prague to build and lead the agency team in 1997 and went to Poland in 2000.
The 11-year-old Colliers International Poland has nearly 100 employees, but will increase to more than 150 when the new offices come on line in April. "The introduction of the partnership model is also a moment for setting new goals for the company," Dean says in a press release. "In the coming years, we plan to open two more offices in Gdañsk and Poznañ that will strengthen our local operations. "Changing the company's structure is another meaningful step towards becoming the best commercial real estate consultancy in Poland."
Besides Dean, the partners are Ewa Czarnecka, Monika Rajska-Woliñska, Marek Ciunowicz, Marcin Kania, Pawe³ Ska³ba, Robert Karniewski, Maciej Chmielewski, Peter Love, John Banka, Neil Gregory-Eaves and Alex Kloszewski.
In Eastern Europe, Oncor International LLC added UUS MAA Kinnisvaragrupp as its newest firm. The Tallinn, Estonia-based UUS MAA opened in 1992, growing to more than 250 employees in 10 branch offices in Estonia plus operations in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia.
"The addition of UUS MAA in Estonia highlights our continued expansion in Eastern Europe and strengthens our commitment to providing the most extensive global commercial real estate network for our clients," Paul Van Devender, executive managing director of the Parsippany, NJ-based Oncor International, says in yesterday's press release. Oncor International is made up of more than 50 independent commercial brokerage houses, employing in excess of 2,200 associates in 170 offices in 32 countries.
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