Bucureşti, 8 aug /Agerpres/ – Overseas Property Professional (OPP),…

… revistă britanică lunară dedicată profesioniştilor pieţei imobiliare şi investiţiilor din străinătate, a întocmit, în numărul său din iulie, o analiză a pieţei imobiliare româneşti. Helen Dutton, redactor la OPP, a dorit să afle ce oportunităţi apar pentru agenţii imobiliari din România, în condiţiile în care turismul se află în plin stadiu de dezvoltare, după modernizarea infrastructurii şi a industriei. Adrian Niculescu, manager la Euroest, crede că sectorul imobiliar încă se află într-o “perioadă de preconsolidare, în care există suficient loc pentru ca alţi jucători să intre pe piaţă, la nivel local şi internaţional”. El recomandă achiziţii în asociere cu … Continue reading Bucureşti, 8 aug /Agerpres/ – Overseas Property Professional (OPP),…

To take care vs not to take care

I found this picture on the web … I liked it but I didn’t think that the comparison is made in the correct way. A woman can look great no matter if she lives in US or EU. I’m not in a position to judge, and nobody is, but except medical problems, every woman should strive to have the best look possible according with the age. Of course, you know, there are many things in life which happens without us having possibility to control them. But at least, when we have the budget established we can choose what to eat … Continue reading To take care vs not to take care

My fellow Romanians drink annually wines worth 0.5 bn Euros

The market is dominated by white wines, but the red ones increase in prefferences of customers and the dry ones are more and more requested than the sweet ones. In 2007, the good brands kept 80% from the market from the valoric sales point of view, the rest being owned by the table ones according with the company Memrb Iri quoted by Capital.ro. From the volume in sales poin of view, the table wines gathered 50.3% from the market. The wines bottled at 0.7/ 0.75 l had 71.5% from the market being followed by the 2 liter pet. The B2B … Continue reading My fellow Romanians drink annually wines worth 0.5 bn Euros

How much will increase the Beijing real estate market after The Olympics?

It is known that the prices for the residential units from the Beijing Olympic Village arrived at 2.826 euros/ sqm (30.000 yuans) and will be available for sale after The Olympic Games will be finished. The cost of the Olympic Village is not different from the cost of a regular development as stated by Mr. Ding Jianming, engineer in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Project Construction Headquarters Office. The name of the village is Dream World 2008 and doesn’t need big investment in marketing because, by default its image is associated with The Olympic Games brand which is a huge, huge … Continue reading How much will increase the Beijing real estate market after The Olympics?

Will follow a recession in Europe?

These can be the arguments to sustain a potential answer: 1. 6 bn euros is the total loss of the Big 5 Spanish real estate developers. 2. 0.6% is the decrease of the Danish economy in Q1 2008, following also a decrease of 0.6% in Q4 2008, which can mean that Danmark was the first country in the EU affected by recession. 3. 1.9% is the decrease of the industrial production in May in the Euro area, the biggest decrease from the European Monetary crisis in 1992. 4. 15,000 is the growth of the requests for unemployment help from the … Continue reading Will follow a recession in Europe?

America – today

The figures doesn’t look good, anybody can see: 1. 53% is the growth of the number of mortgages executed due to thye fact that the owners didn’t pay the debts in comparison with June 2007, in the 6th month of this year being took-over by the banks 252,363 properties according with US Foreclosure Market Report. 2. 1.6038 USD/ EUR was the exchange rate at 15th of July, 2008, the lowest quotation of USD vs Eur since the Eur currency was introduced – 1999. 3. 1-1.6% the growth of GDP in 2008 estimated by the governors of Fed system at the … Continue reading America – today

Smiley – a business perspective

The idea of this article came in June when I had a very different way of spending the afternoon in the day of my birthday: me and my wife were invited by Target Magazine, a magazine which publish success business stories and profiles of the success business people to attend their party for the annual awards. It was a different way to do it than in previous years but all was great: the atmosphere, the people, the club, everything. Here are some pictures: Tle live acts were a crew of dancers from Pro TV and Smiley, a member of Simplu … Continue reading Smiley – a business perspective

08.08.2008 – S-a dat startul jocurilor olimpice de la Beijing

Prosport.ro ne anunta: Astăzi, 8 august, la 15.08, ora României, a debutat la Beijing, a XXIX-a ediţie a Jocurilor Olimpice de vară. Ceremonia de deschidere se desfăşoară pe stadionul olimpic din capitala Chinei şi va dura aproximativ trei ore şi jumătate. Spectacolul din “Cuibul de pasăre” va dura circa o oră înainte de defilarea celor 204 delegaţii şi apoi deschiderea oficială a JO de către preşedintele chinez Hu Jintao. Zeci de şefi de stat şi guvern, între care preşedintele american George W. Bush, preşedintele francez Nicolas Sarkozy şi premierul rus Vladimir Putin asistă la ceremonia de deschidere a primei Olimpiade … Continue reading 08.08.2008 – S-a dat startul jocurilor olimpice de la Beijing

Insurance, Legal, Real Estate and Entertainment – the four “A” which sustain the Obama brand

It is known that in the current pre-election campanign, Barack Obama raised around 340 mil dollars. The studies shows that one third of the funds is from donations of more than 1000 dollars. Even if Mr. Obama is a fan of donations under 200 dollars there are 500 supporters which contributed to the campaign with more the 50,000 USD. 20 of them contributed with 500,000 USD, 6 are above 1 mil USD and 2 of them donated more than 2 mil USD as stated by the electronic edition of New Your Times yesterday. According with an analysis of the donations, … Continue reading Insurance, Legal, Real Estate and Entertainment – the four “A” which sustain the Obama brand

The number of building permits issued in Bulgaria dropped with 25% in Q1 2008

According with the British publication Overseas Property Professional, quoting the Bulgarian National Statistics Institute, in the first three months of this year, 3,505 construction permits in a total amount of 2.56 mil sqm were issued in Bulgaria. In the same period of 2007 were issued 4,637 permits covering 4.46 mil sqm which means a decrease in 2008 of 25%. The city Bourgas is the first with the most permits for construction (394) followed by Sofia (311) and Varna (236). Two thirds of the permits issued during Q1 2008 were for residential projects. For this kind of developments, 2,267 permits were … Continue reading The number of building permits issued in Bulgaria dropped with 25% in Q1 2008

iPhone 3G vine in Romania din 22 august

Operatorul de telefonie mobila Orange a anuntat ca va aduce terminalul iPhone 3G in Romania, vanzarile urmand sa inceapa din 22 august. “Pe data de 22 august, la ora 00:00, Orange va deschide simultan portile a 6 magazine Orange din tara, unde clientii Orange sunt asteptati sa ia parte la lansarea oficiala a iPhone: Orange concept store din Bucuresti si magazinele Orange din Iasi (Bd. Anastasie Panu), Cluj (Bd. 21 Decembrie), Brasov (St. Muresenilor), Timisoara (Bd. Republicii) si Constanta (Sos. Stefan cel Mare)”, se arata intr-un comunicat al Orange. Incepand de astazi, 7 august, clientii isi pot inregistra online pre-comanda … Continue reading iPhone 3G vine in Romania din 22 august