Intimate housing investments gaining in time of pandemic

"With the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be a constant change in customer needs in order to have a piece of our own green," housing investor Alexander Weiss said. That is why his latest investment is an intimate building on a green hill in the historic Redena Park in Chorzów. Its designer Maciej Franta emphasizes that every year developers pay more and more attention to the development of green areas around residential investments.

"In the era of mass housing investments and the construction of huge housing estates in cities, we observe more and more often that investors are starting to enter smaller centers, and customers are increasing their expectations. There is a group of customers on the market who are looking for interesting solutions. We also see that investors themselves are pushing for proposals for interesting projects, which are more than just a building equipped with an appropriate number of apartments, windows, and balconies. We try to meet these expectations, implement a better program based on better architecture. We see more and more interest in this type of investment," Maciej Franta, owner of the Franta Group studio, the designer of Villa Reden, noted.

This approach is favored by the pandemic period. According to the February report "Preferences of apartment buyers" by Obido.pl and JLL, last year there were many changes in the housing preferences of Poles. The largest concerns the need for access to your own external space, i.e. a garden or even a terrace or balcony. For 52 percent of apartment buyers, this feature became the most important when choosing a flat, while before the pandemic it was indicated by 23 percent of subjects. 47 percent is now guided by access to natural light (previously 39 percent) and 45 percent by proximity to public green areas (previously 31 percent). Customers also pay much more attention to air quality and noise in the area. Interestingly, all these criteria pushed the current leader only to the 10th position, i.e. the proximity of public transport.

(Newseria)