Paulina Petynka joins Yareal Polska

Yareal Polska has welcomed Paulina Petynka as the newly appointed Leasing Director. Paulina, owing to her 20+ years of experience in the real property market, will be accountable for developing leasing strategies for office and retail spaces in Yareal Polska’s portfolio, including in particular the LIXA campus and the SOHO by Yareal mixed-use complex.

“I am happy to welcome Paulina as the new Leasing Director at Yareal Polska. She will be involved in increasing the value of our projects by shaping lease strategies and developing attractive offerings of commercial space, which will respond to the needs of each tenant. I am confident that her expertise, excellent knowledge of the local market and the expectations of tenants and clients will translate into the successful commercialisation of selected developments and strengthen the tenant mix of our buildings. What is more, all her assets will contribute to the development of our offering in the commercial real property segment,” said Jacek Zengteler, CEO at Yareal Polska.

Paulina Petynka has over 20 years of professional experience in advisory, managerial and real property development roles gained in Polish and international companies. Before joining Yareal Polska, Paulina worked in the capacity of Associate Director, Landlord Representation Office Department at Colliers for seven years, where she was in charge of supporting and coordinating the leasing strategy for the company’s key accounts. Before that, for almost two years, she was employed as a Leasing Manager at Metro Properties, where she was responsible for the commercialisation of retail space in nine M1 shopping centres across Poland. In addition, for 12 years, Paulina was accountable for a commercial space lease at Centrum Zana, an office space developer. During that time, she leased approx. 60,000 sqm of office space and coordinated one of the major transactions in the Lublin real property market: Centrum Zana selling three office buildings to the First Property Poland fund.

Paulina’s main area of expertise is strategic consultancy, development of lease models and strategies, negotiating and re-negotiating contracts, as well as marketing consultancy for the real property sector. Her professional experience includes developing and implementing commercialisation strategies for buildings under construction and for buildings in use – including coordinating rebranding procedures of office buildings.

Yareal Polska’s commercial space portfolio includes real properties located in Warsaw, such as its flagship LIXA office campus including Yareal’s signature food and service concept LIXA City Gardens, as well as SOHO by Yareal with several dozen retail and service outlets on a total of over 11,300 sqm of space. What is more, Yareal Polska, on behalf of YAM Invest, acts as asset manager of the Wspólna 47/49 building, which offers 7,800 sqm of office space in the very heart of Warsaw.