Positive Romania Talks with Christopher Shonn, real estate consultant with Avison Young, on embracing Romania as his new home

American Christopher Shonn, one of the “last Mohicans” on the Romanian real estate market, as he likes to call himself, has been living in the country for almost half of his life. Interviewed by Andrei Chirileasa for the second edition of the Positive Romania Talks series, Christopher shares how a business assignment in Romania has changed his life, why he loves Bucharest and why he lives outside the city, in one of Romania’s most picturesque places. Christopher Shonn is now a senior advisor for the local office of Canadian real estate consultancy firm Avison Young in Bucharest.

Christopher came to Romania for the first time in 1996 and one year later, he was given the task to open a local office for one of the biggest real estate consultancy firms in the world. In doing that, he also schooled the first generation of Romanian commercial real estate consultants.