Living the dream

It was words like these, often paraphrased in the form of election pledges, that came back to me when I was studying materials for the December issue of ‘Eurobuild CEE’. We have had a new government in place in Poland for just a few weeks and a new president for a few months, but I can still hear the slogans and sound bites of the election campaign in my head. What impact, if any, are the changes at the top going to have on the real estate market? There are a few angles to look at, and we write about one of them (the dreaded ’hypermarket tax’) in the article entitled “A Change for the Worse?” A few people in our sector (Tomasz Trzósło of JLL and CBRE’s Daniel Bienias) have their own expectations and suggestions for the new administration, in terms of how to streamline the sector. And since we have smoothly segued into the realm of desires, imaginings and conceptions, a few pages earlier you can discover that there is a new species of building cal