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Continue reading →: We Didn’t IPO. We Did Something Cooler First.
After 15 months of work and audits across three countries, Samaná Landbank Trust became the first Caribbean real estate fund accepted into European financial market infrastructure. What that means in plain English, and why it matters.
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Continue reading →: How Can You Own Land If the Title Doesn’t Show Exactly Where It Is?
In the Dominican Republic, ownership historically came before geometry. What that means for buyers, what the due diligence should look like, and why the invisible work is where value is created.
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Continue reading →: Cruise Giants Are Buying Islands. Will Samaná Be Next?A new cruise terminal is opening in Samaná Bay. The numbers on spending, whales and the industry’s environmental record deserve a closer look before the ribbon is cut.
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Continue reading →: Stop Using Tourist Arrivals as a Proxy for Investment PotentialRecord arrivals tell you how many people showed up, not how much value stayed. The Dominican Republic shows why yield, not volume, is the number to watch.
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Continue reading →: Not Just a Principle on Paper: A Thank-You Letter From Four Samaná CommunitiesFour communities in Samaná sent us a letter thanking Samana Group for helping improve their access road. Here is the letter, and why it means more to me than most things we have built.
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Continue reading →: The Dominican Republic Regulates Who Builds, Not What Gets BuiltDevelop 100 villas as one project and you face a wall of permits. Let 100 owners each build one house on the same land and the rules are far lighter. The impact on the land is identical. Only the paperwork differs.
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Continue reading →: Tulum Was a Paradise. Now It’s a Warning. Samaná Could Be Next.Tulum, Cancún, Bali, Phuket, Punta Cana: the same boom-and-bust story keeps repeating. Here is how it happens, what the evidence says, and why Samaná doesn’t have to follow it.
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Continue reading →: We Don’t Negotiate with Land Pirates. We Go to Court.When machete-armed invaders tried to seize part of our construction site in Samaná, we refused to pay and went to court instead. Why land grabs thrive in frontier markets, and why developed markets are not immune.
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Continue reading →: The Hidden Star of Poland’s Economic Miracle Was the Communists. Could Cuba Be Next?What forty-five years of central planning left behind, why it mattered after 1989, and whether the same pattern could make Cuba one of the fastest-growing economies of the next three decades I am Polish. I grew up in the shadow of the system I am about to discuss, and I…
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Continue reading →: We have been on every side of a Dominican property dealWhy we launched Samana Legal Samana Legal is now live at samanalegal.com. The website explains what we do. This post is about why we did it. Building Samana Group on the Samaná Peninsula, we have been the developer, the buyer, the seller and the landowner. In Dominican property those are…
Hello,
I’m Marek
Founder & CEO of Samana Group. Author of “Chasing Black Unicorns”. Born in Poland. Built in Nigeria, South Africa and the Dominican Republic. Co-founder of Jumia Travel and SunRoof International. Racing driver.
