Investment, innovation, inspiration

As always, we brought together the most outstanding experts and market leaders to review the past year, discuss the key challenges ahead, and highlight the most influential trends shaping the real estate sector. The agenda covered the state of the office market, the stabilisation in the logistics property scene, the evolution of retail, the potential of PRS, PBSA and senior living, as well as the technological revolution that continues to transform the sector. The conference opened with an insightful presentation by Monika Dębska-Pastakia, a partner associate at KPMG, who stressed that the very notion of property value is changing as the sector stands on the threshold of significant regulatory, technological and market shifts. Central to this transformation are new regulations – particularly the EU’s revised EPBD directive, which tightens energy-efficiency requirements, and the extension of the ETS2 system to buildings, which will increase operating costs for fossil fuel-