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Property Forum’s upcoming free-to-attend virtual event will aim to provide a property investment outlook for 2021. In the form of a keynote speech and two panel discussions, influential investors, developers and advisors will share their expectations and investment strategies for the second pandemic year.


This online event offers all the important features of our offline events: unique networking opportunities with the leading decision-makers of the CEE property industry and cutting edge professional program with inspiring speakers– all in the comfort and safety of your home. Attendees can watch all speeches and discussions, comment and ask questions, initiate private chat and private video meetings with online attendees and try our virtual speed networking.

Attending this online event is free of charge but registration is mandatory.

The event will start with an investment market update provided by Zoltan Szelyes, CEO and co-founder of Macro Real Estate AG, an international research-based real estate consultancy firm and head of the indirect real estate business for Dicoval AG, a Swiss family office. He is also acting as chair of the INREV Research Committee and is part of several advisory boards.

Zoltan Szelyes

Zoltan Szelyes

CEO
Macro Real Estate AG

Zoltan is an international real estate research and investment expert with over 16 years of experience. He is CEO and co-founder of Macro Real Estate AG, an international research-based real estate consultancy firm and is heading the indirect real estate business for Dicoval AG, a Swiss family office. Zoltan Szelyes has started his professional career as Global Real Estate Analyst in Credit Suisse Research, where he built up the global real estate research from scratch and advised PB and AM clients in real estate between 2004 and 2007. In September 2007 he joined the Swiss National Bank where he spent most of the time as Co-Head of the Asset Management of the SNB Stabilization Fund, a bad bank created during the financial crisis with $38 billion of assets. He left the SNB after the successful wind-down of the bad bank, which delivered a $3.8 billion profit for the SNB and Swiss taxpayers. In February 2014 Zoltan has re-joined Credit Suisse as Head of the Global Real Estate Research, where he was responsible for global real estate research for both the direct and indirect platforms of CSAM. In July 2020 Zoltan established Macro Real Estate AG in order to provide independent research and advisory for real estate investment managers and institutional investors seeking international real estate expertise on markets and products. He also moved to Dicoval AG as Head of Real Estate Indirect to build up an international indirect real estate portfolio. Zoltan is also acting 2021 as chair of the INREV Research Committee and is part of several advisory boards More »

The first panel discussion will feature investors and advisors that have been especially active through these turbulent times:

Victor Constantinescu

Victor Constantinescu

Managing Partner, Romania & Co-Head of Real Estate
Kinstellar

Victor Constantinescu is the Managing Partner of Kinstellar’s Bucharest office and the Co-Head of the firm-wide real estate practice. Kinstellar is a leading law firm in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with offices in 10 countries and over 250 lawyers. Victor focuses on all aspects of real estate transactions in the region for a range of international investment funds and local developers and has over 15 years’ experience locally and regionally. His particular emphasis is on transactional work: acquisitions and sales of commercial real estate, as well as joint ventures, across all asset classes: retail, office, logistics, and agricultural. Since joining Kinstellar in 2017, Victor has led transactions whose combined value exceed EUR 500 million. Leading international legal directories such as Chambers, Legal 500 or other benchmark publications all rank him among the top three real estate lawyers in the country. Recent editions of the guides recommend him as "an outstanding practitioner for his commercially-oriented approach", as well as for "his commercial and precise advice, flexibility and international experience”. He is further described as "experienced, active and well connected’’, with clients appreciating the "very easy communication" with him. Born in Canada, he is a native English speaker. He began his career practicing in the United States before moving to Romania full-time in 2004. He is admitted to the New York and Bucharest Bars. More »
Mihai Patrulescu

Mihai Patrulescu

Head of Investment Properties
CBRE Romania

Mihai Patrulescu leads the Investment Properties department at CBRE Romania. With a strong financial background, Mihai Patrulescu brings a different approach, having experience in complex projects, financial analysis and project management for large real estate portfolio deals. Before joining CBRE Romania, Mihai Patrulescu held key positions as Senior Investment Associate and Head of Strategic Analysis in another real estate company, being involved in complex portfolio deals. More »
Hadley Dean

Hadley Dean

Founder
MDC²

Hadley has been successfully operating in Poland for over 20 years where he is recognised for growing businesses and consistently outperforming the market place. Before establishing MDC² he used to hold the role of the founding CEO of EPP – the largest owner of shopping centres in Poland (EUR 2.6bn of GAV). Prior to EPP he was a Managing Partner for Eastern Europe for Colliers International where he built the best logistics and industrial space agency business in Central and Eastern Europe. More »
Paul W. Hallam

Paul W. Hallam

Managing Partner
GalCap Europe

Paul Hallam is a Managing Partner of GalCap Europe, focusing on asset acquisition and management of real estate assets in the CEE region.  His past background with Washington, DC-based real estate developers, and executive positions within global Fortune-500 Companies, ensure that GalCap Europe fully executes on the special requirements of our clients in this region.  In addition to CEE activities, Paul manages GalCap Europe’s relationships from the USA and Great Britain, reconciling the complex international requirements of each client.

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Hedwig Höfler

Hedwig Höfler

Head of Investment Management
CA Immo

In her function as Investment Manager CEE for CA Immo, an Austrian-based listed international property company, Mrs. Höfler is responsible for the evaluation and realization of real estate transactions in the CEE and SEE region. Since her beginning of work in 2002 for Europolis GmbH, a former subsidiary of Volksbanken AG and since 2011 part of CA Immo Group, her field of activity has focused in the property markets of Czech Republic, Romania and Poland, where she has a profound and long-term expertise. Mrs. Höfler has an academic degree in Spatial Planning of the Technical University Vienna and has a Post Graduate Degree in Retail Real Estate (EBS, Germany). More »
Adrian Karczewicz

Adrian Karczewicz

Head of Divestments CEE
Skanska Commercial Development Europe

As Head of Divestments for Skanska CDE, Adrian Karczewicz is responsible for sourcing buyers and conducting the deal process in four CEE markets: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. In 2015, Skanska CDE concluded final sales agreements for 11 office buildings, achieving a total transaction volume of nearly EUR 500m for the year. As a result, the company’s sales activity accounted for over 20% of the total transaction volume in the office sectors of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania, maintaining Skanska CDE’s leading position in the CEE office market. Adrian conducted the company’s first office portfolio transaction in the region – a sale of four buildings located in two Polish regional cities. This was 2015's biggest office divestment realized in CEE and the company's biggest ever transaction in the region. In 2014 Adrian was responsible for sourcing buyers for seven office buildings in Central and Eastern Europe and executing the transaction process. Adrian started his professional career in 1997 as an analyst at Gerald Eve International, going on to work for Knight Frank in Warsaw, and GE Capital Golub Real Estate. Prior to joining Skanska in 2013, he worked for Echo Investment as the director responsible for the company’s asset divestments.  More »

We’ll dedicate an additional panel to an emerging asset class: living investments. The following panellists will join:

Przemysław Chimczak-Bratkowski

Przemysław Chimczak-Bratkowski

CEO & Co-Founder
ThinkCo - real estate research lab

Przemysław Chimczak-Bratkowski is the co-founder and CEO of ThinkCo, a real estate research lab that specializes in architectural programming of PRS and alternative investments (coliving, student and senior housing). Rental market and living services expert, rewarded with an international Archi-World Academy Award in 2019. He has graduated architecture in Milan, Warsaw and Wroclaw and project management at the Warsaw School of Economics.   More »
Zuzana Chudoba

Zuzana Chudoba

Head of Real Estate
YIT Czech Republic

Zuzana has been working for YIT Group since 2010. Currently, as Head of Real Estate, she is responsible for the development of build to rent projects and rental services in the Czech Republic including the rollout of the services across the region including Slovakia, Poland and Baltic countries. Prior to her current position, she was Customer Experience Manager in Central Eastern Europe. Zuzana has been working in residential development for 17 years and worked for companies like Orco Property Group or King Sturge. She has graduated at Tomas Bata University, Czech Republic and holds an Executive MBA from the European Institute of Purchasing Management in China/ France. She is also Member of the Board in Nordic Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic. More »
Harald Hübl

Harald Hübl

Investment Director
value one holding AG

Harald Hübl is the Investment director of value one holding AG. Prior to joining the value one holding AG, he contributed to the turnaround of BAWAG PSK, an Austrian bank which is part of the private equity fund Cerberus, as Head of the Corporate Finance department of industrial / infrastructure and real estate. Previously, he spent nearly ten years in London at GE Capital, responsible for expanding their European business and as the leader in Europe Healthcare Leveraged Finance, real estate financing, M&A and infrastructure investment and financing. He started his career at Erste Bank in the international project and real estate finance for Central and Eastern Europe.  More »
Pepijn Morshuis

Pepijn Morshuis

CEO
Trei Real Estate

Pepijn Morshuis serves as CEO of Trei Real Estate since 2015. His responsibilities include the departments International Transactions, Asset Management and Development. Before joining Trei, he spent 19 years working for Dutch asset manager The IBUS Company, the last eleven years thereof as its CEO. At the time, IBUS was a globally active, independent real estate investment and asset management company. Before, he was Auditor at Arthur Andersen. Morshuis looks back on a total of 25 years of real estate experience and has been responsible for development and repositioning projects involving office, residential and retail properties in Europe, the United States and Asia. More »
Roee Shamir

Roee Shamir

Managing Director
Aurec Capital Poland

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Marek Obuchowicz

Marek Obuchowicz

Partner
Griffin Real Estate

Marek Obuchowicz specialises in the area of private equity and corporate finance, with a special emphasis on the real estate sector. As Partner at Griffin Real Estate, Marek currently oversees the development and all activities of Student Depot – a platform that was originally set up by Griffin Real Estate and Oaktree in 2015, and since then has evolved to become the largest owner and operator of PBSA in Poland and the fastest growing provider in the country. Prior to joining Griffin Real Estate, Marek worked at an international investment firm Kulczyk Investments and PwC, a global advisory firm. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and University of London. More »

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