Influence of Real Estate Entities on the Urban Area Shaping

The correct arrangement of area use function in built-up and urbanized areas is of a crucial meaning as for the satisfaction of economical and functional needs of a city. The process of creating functional structure is not incidental, it is a consistently implemented concept included in the planning documents. The use of limited resources is conditioned by the needs linked to the proper management, based on optimal adjustment of area to determined functions. Maintaining spatial order is a result of interdependent and correlated actions of many entities. Some of these actions are regulated in law, while other arise from indirect actions of entities operating in a given area, among others, of real estate market professionals. Selected problems of the optimal shaping of built-in and urbanized areas (in particularly of cities) were presented in the study. Those processes of the real estate system and their influence on the optimal use of areas in which a significant role may be played by real estate professionals: real estate appraisers, real estate agents and real estate managers were presented