Christmas in the real estate world comes in November. You can tell by the fact that shopping centres are full to the brim every day and not just at weekends, as ‘Last Christmas’ blares from the tannoy. In offices. negotiations will have already begun over who’s going to work over the Christmas/New Year period and when to hold the firm’s Christmas party. Warehouse managers will already be struggling to find the hands to work in their distribution centres. This pre-Christmas frenzy has already infected Eurobuild’s editorial staff and has broken out elsewhere in the sector. Ten real estate companies accepted our invitation to have some fun with us on one November afternoon, as we took over a Warsaw restaurant and transformed it for the day into a bauble painting workshop. The Christmas tree decorations we created will go to the Iskierka foundation, which supports the families of children suffering from cancer. The money that we raised on the day will also be