Event Program

17th edition, June 19, Sheraton Bucharest Hotel

08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:45 Opening Session | Major NEW investment projects on the local real estate market. 

• Investment outlook for the Romanian real estate market
• Key attraction points for new property investors
• Romania’s yield position versus other property markets in the region
• Gauging demand for new investments in the local real estate sector

09:45 – 10:30 How the internal migration of Romanian specialists shapes new real estate trends 

• INS stats on internal migration to Romania’s main regional cities
  What is driving this?
  Can the trend be expected to intensify in the following years?
• HR challenges and their impact on regional office and residential markets – finding and retaining employees at a time of increased job mobility

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee & networking break

10:45 – 13:00 Bucharest vs. secondary cities: the new battleground on the Romanian real estate market 

A. 10:45 – 12:00 Office | Residential | Retail

• Bucharest vs secondary cities: why and when?
• Investments in real estate transactions in Bucharest vs. the rest of the country in 2018. Why and where?
• Demand and supply for office across Bucharest and the main regional cities in Romania
• Factors that influence the development of the real estate sector in Bucharest and secondary cities in 2018
• Mixed projects: a new trend that attracts real estate developers
• Fastest growing residential markets outside Bucharest in 2018
• Tertiary cities: are they a valid opportunity for real estate developers? Major projects developed there
• New directions for retail: online versus new concepts ( co-working, Uber, pop-up stores, stores inside apartment buildings)
• Big tech and employers as real estate and property developers

12:00 – 12:15 Coffee & networking break

B. 12:15 – 13:00 Industrial | Logistics

• The Romanian industrial and logistics sector climbed to fresh highs in 2017, with gross take-up gaining 15 percent to over 525,000 square meters. What are the factors that influence the development of the industrial/logistics sector in 2018?
• Emerging cities for industrial investments in 2018
• Industries that drive demand for logistics services in the coming years
• Capacity of Romania’s market to attract new players in the industrial/logistics sector in 2018

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Community development real estate projects

• Real estate projects and their impact on the development of the sector: how do real estate developers integrate community development in their plans
• Major investments in community development projects
• The integration of the community development component in the real estate projects: a new focus of the real estate developers? What should be expected from this new trend?