Archive for March, 2009

As promised, today I present to you the translation of my interview yesterday at Curierul National. (I didn’t translate it myself, the official translator did, that’s why it is so good). As my discussion with the dynamic journalist from this newspaper included many more fields and topics, I hope that soon you will be... »

While the crisis is deepens every week, a very dynamic journalist from Curierul National newspaper asked my opinion for many topics. You can find the link of the online edition here http://curierulnational.ro/primaPagina/2009-03-11 and you can easily locate me and read the interview in Romanian language. For the ones of you who don’t know Romanian, I... »

The no. 1 Real Estate exhibition of the World showed us more than clearly that the World is still approaching cautiously the available investment opportunities. Half of the private companies which were present as exhibitors last year are absent now, most of them did not even appear as visitors. The vast majority of investors... »

Having signed a deal of several millions of euro, I had the best “medicine” for my mood yesterday morning. My client obtained what he was searching for a couple of years, the owner was relieved as he finally liquidated his property at a fair price and received the “desired” cash, the owner’s agent had... »

It may sound weird to some of you, but for me the news is very good. The Romanian President, Mr. Traian Basescu, has finally officially declared the country’s intention to discuss and probably to accept help by IMF and European Union. He stated that the necessary funds amount to some 20 billion euro and... »

(Sorry, folks, but it is time to train the sales departments of residential projects how to respect their real client, the end user) He was probably around 26 years old, but he was feeling like a Real Estate veteran. Having worked for the last three years in a “big” Real Estate agency, he felt he knew... »

It used to be the opposite. Endless good news flowing, week after week, is creating a feeling of security to everyone. Now this is history, the majority of the news makes us sad, skeptical or pessimistic. But still, even under these circumstances, good news exists, sometimes allowing us to create an interesting “ping pong”... »

Hello and have a wonderful week! Yesterday I returned from Greece back to Romania, so as to have the time to finish 6 (!) meetings (2 last night and 4 today) before I go to the airport in the afternoon and fly to Nice. From there Cannes is just half an hour drive and... »

Buna ziua to everyone. Couple of days ago I read in the news that European Union fined Romania with 8,4 million euro. The reason was the country’s delay of the payments to the owners of agricultural lands based on how many hectare they own. The institute which had to pay by end of June... »

Bucharest was cloudy today in the morning… the traffic was not dramatic (thanks to some excellent policemen who really did good work) and the plane half empty as it usually happens since the end of 2008 and especially since the beginning of the year. I was just preparing for my usual sleep on board... »