Mariola Gronou is quite simply one of the most experienced and best-informed property experts working for us in Poland.

She has personally built a respectable sized portfolio in Eastern Europe to add to her UK holdings, and thus approaches every potential deal with an innate understanding of the issues involved.

Mariola visits every deal personally, and explores the wider geographical area to fully understand how the development fits into the bigger context.
As with all our deal finders, the first thing we do is put her through the Elevator Test - can she convince us quickly that this is a great deal? Here are our questions and Mariola's replies.

OK, the Baltic Park deal is clearly a little different from most we've offered in Poland before. First, why don't you tell us why anyone should invest?

Right, well, the bottom line reason here is very rapid capital growth. We can go into why in a moment, but let's define what we expect.