Ziarul Financiar invited Andrei Lefter onto ZF 15 minute cu un antreprenor, the programme it runs together with UniCredit Bank, for a conversation about how the property market moved in 2025. After a difficult start to the year, when developers put projects on hold because of the political context, things have improved across the board since May, with the strongest momentum in the commercial segment — from the retailers the practice works with as much as from shopping centre investors. DRS-Architects went into the year with a conservative budget and a forecast of falling revenue, but by the end of September it had already exceeded its full-year 2024 revenue (4.7 million lei, up 34% on 2023), with more than ten projects in various design stages and a workload above 90%. The conversation covers the practice's portfolio — the partnerships with Primark and Penny, the Arena Mall Bacău extension, an office-to-residential conversion and hotel projects — and Andrei Lefter's own story as the third generation of architects in his family, who started as an employee and later partner in his father's firm in Bacău before building DRS on a more corporate model, one that can offer careers to the people who grow inside the practice. The programme closes on the observation that the market has matured, that demand for quality projects and for technology is rising, and that the competition between architecture firms is a healthy one that helps everybody grow.
Source: Ziarul Financiar, 25 October 2025 — ZF 15 minute cu un antreprenor. Piața imobiliară s-a dezmorțit? „Din luna mai, lucrurile au evoluat pozitiv pe toate liniile, cel mai mult vedem progres pe zona comercială“Link: Ziarul Financiar
