Expo Real 2025: Alexandre Grellier on 22 years of digitising due diligence

• Drooms co-founder Alexandre Grellier on the company's 22-year mission.
• Focused on professionalising and digitising due diligence, well before it was fashionable.

Reinforces Drooms' long-standing specialism in real estate due diligence.

: My name is Alexandre Grelier.

I'm the co-founder of a company called Jooms.

We started 22 years ago with the purpose, and this purpose has never gone away, to professionalize and to digitize the due diligence process.

This platform that we built is built for many is the relevant documentation for assets all over the planet.

This platform is built specifically to be highly secure, to be extremely fast, to be simple in usage and to be highly scalable.

With that base and foundation, we came from this pure digital document management platform into the new AI world.

We are working with AI, : Since almost 10 years now, we are active all over Western Europe, starting to go into CE more and more.

I have been lately to Warschau with a team of mine.

This year's expo, to me, is very interesting due to the fact that I see less exhibitors.

The stands and the halls are not really full.

You have a lot of lounge areas and stuff like this.

is not terrible, it's pouring and everybody's inside.

I don't think that it is super full.

You have still a lot of space in some of the holes.

The branch globally, the real estate branch, is still suffering.

Companies will send less people and they have to take care of other stuff.

The market conditions stay specifically in the Dach region, .

We see that there in Eastern Europe, there's more going on.

But if I look at Western Europe, there's a lot of insecurity.

People suffering from the fact that they bought very expensively over the last three, four years.

And now we will be coming into a refinancing phase.

So this is complicated.

Due diligence processes have become far more intense.

is the whole ESG topic.

I see less of that.

I see more if I go to the tech area.

I see more electricity components, parking and all these kind of things, which seem to be a new, a bigger topic at the moment.

Refinancing conditions in certain areas are complicated.

Having talked to some of our Polish clients is there the market is stable and growing.

and has less regulation than other countries.

So more investors are eager to look at Poland and put money into Poland.

Though the FX rate with Zloty and Euro stays sort of complicated and makes some refrain from investing heavily.

But still a very interesting market with a lot of things going on.

Poland seems to be the most active market.

and are about to accept the new normal that the trees are not growing into the sky anymore and try to cope with it and now finally I see people really looking for opportunities and trying to become active again.