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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…
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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.
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.
