Patrick Delcol and Radosław Knap, Chairman and General Director of the PRCH, said “EU policy is now crucial for real estate. Good EU law will improve Polish regulation and facilitate foreign investment. Our membership of EPF will enable active Polish involvement in the design of this EU legislative architecture.”
John Frederiksen and Joseph Houlihan, President and Chairman of the Managing Committee of EPF, said “PRCH’s impressive membership brings us many of the major Polish investors and PRCH will be helping us expand to cover the spectrum of real estate in a country which is now a major player in EU policy-making with, inter alia, 51 members of the European Parliament. We look forward to working with the PRCH and, through it, with the Polish component of European government.”
The Polish Council of Shopping Centres (PRCH) is a not-for-profit association that represents more than 200 corporate members (commercial property investment and development companies, shopping centres, retailers and service providers)operating on the commercial real estate market in Poland. PRCH’s mission is to support the development and positive image of businesses and professionals in the Polish retail property market. PRCH members own and manage retail property assets of over 7 million sqm GLA. PRCH is the national partner of ICSC. PRCH organizes annual fair ReDI, CEE Trade Fair for Retail Investment in Warsaw, Poland.
EPF (European Property Federation) represents all aspects of property ownership and investment: residential landlords, housing companies, commercial property investment and development companies, shopping centres and the property interests of the institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pension funds). Members own and manage property assets valued at € 1.5 trillion.
