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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…
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Continue reading →: We Won the Polish GT4 Championship!Polish Endurance GT4 Champions. I still can’t believe it. This weekend the fifth and final round of the Polish Racing Car Championship wrapped up, and together with Rataj Racing we won the Polish Championship title in the GT4 class. Two years ago I was in a very different place. I…
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Continue reading →: Why I stopped outsourcing sales to brokers — and why the profession survives on licensing, not on usefulnessI thought brokers were selling my properties. In reality, I was outsourcing the customer relationship, the feedback, and the pricing power. So I brought sales in-house — and three people with the right technology sold $25 million in real estate.
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Continue reading →: I saw this coming in 2018, and I moved my whole life because of itAI is making knowledge work cheaper — and ownership more valuable. Anthropic’s 2030 scenarios put numbers behind a conclusion I reached in 2018: as cognitive labor becomes abundant, capital and physical assets gain power. Own something that has to exist in physical space.
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Continue reading →: The Best Broker You’ll Ever Hire Is Probably Not the One Winning AwardsReal estate loves to celebrate volume — top producers, record sales, hundreds of deals closed. But does selling more actually mean serving clients better? A developer’s perspective on why visibility, incentives, and scale may be rewarding the wrong things — and what buyers and sellers should ask instead.
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Continue reading →: The Stupidest Way to Invest in Real Estate Is to Buy Real Estate. Hear me out.Owning a building may feel like the safest way to invest in real estate — but for individual investors, it often creates more concentration, illiquidity, and operational risk than diversification. There’s a better way to gain real estate exposure without becoming a landlord.
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Continue reading →: Samaná first, Excel second. Why I’m Turning Down Buyers Who Just Buy to RentAt Samana Group, we’re willing to lose buyers who see Samaná as nothing more than a rental yield. Because a great development isn’t built by maximizing Airbnb inventory — it’s built by people who genuinely want to be part of the place, even if only for a few months each…
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Continue reading →: The Dominican Republic’s Border Security LessonEurope’s immigration debate often focuses on morality and ideology. The Dominican Republic offers a different perspective — one shaped by direct migration pressure, strict enforcement, and major investment in border security. Its experience raises a fundamental question: can a country maintain control over immigration without first maintaining control over its…
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Continue reading →: CONFOTUR: Who Can Afford the Rules?I’m a real estate developer, and this is going to sound crazy — but hear me out.I think CONFOTUR isn’t a tourism incentive. It’s a textbook case of regulatory capture — and it’s not even the only one. Regulatory capture is simple: a rule gets written in the name of…
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.
