The show must go on

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: In February, CBRE celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Polish operations by holding a conference with guests from around the world. How did this event go? Daniel Bienias, head of CBRE in Poland: It was very good. It was an opportunity for us to give our clients a global view of the market and talk about the future of the sector and what could shape the market. And how did those attending the February conference see the future of real estate? Very positively. We have seen significant growth on this market over the last twenty years. The forecasts for the future were also optimistic. In the meantime, however, a pandemic has broken out, the economic effects of which are still hard to guess. What could we expect to happen next in the real estate sector? The current situation will unfortunately have a negative short- and medium-term impact on the commercial real estate market across Europe, that is if the outbreak is brought unde