Real Estate Adventures / Lessons from Exhibitions
“Castig 5.000 de euro / luna. Voi cumpara un apartament si voi plati o dobanda de 4.300 de euro / luna” “Ar trebui sa fii arestat…”
(ALL TIME CLASSIC) Eu sunt originar din Katerini, un oras grecesc de dimensiuni medii, asa ca sunt de parere ca pot intelege pe toti romanii care vin in Bucuresti dintr-un oras mai mic de provincie. Mi se intampla sa le cunosc profilul psihologic si chiar abordarea lor fata de viata. Probabil ca acesta este motivul... »
Memories from MAPIC 2009…
Welcome to… 2011!
Let me have a necessary break during my forecast for what is coming up during 2010. Since Wednesday I am at Cannes, where I participate at MAPIC. For the ones who are not familiar, MAPIC is the no.1 Real Estate exhibition for retail. 1.400 retailers, tens of Malls and Retail Parks, developers and... »
Munich, here we come!
Hello from Munich! Yesterday was a big night for my country, Greece, as we had elections and a new government was elected. In the same time, I had been organizing another 7 political campaigns and the results were very good. But now all these belong to history. Yesterday evening I flied to Munich,... »
Today in Vienna: My speech at the panel discussion for Romania
Hello from cloudy – soon to be raining, Vienna. I hope you are fine, wherever you are. Here in REAL VIENNA most people definitely don’t feel fine. Not a lot of visitors, not a lot of stands… I hope that this second day will be much better than the first one. Even if the number... »
Guten Tag aus Wien!
Hello from sunny Vienna! Last night I finished my meetings around 23.00, today I woke up at 04.15, changed two planes and arrived at Vienna around 10.30 (local time). The weather is wonderful here and now that you read these lines I am already inside REAL VIENNA, the number 1 Real Estate exhibition of... »
Memories from Cannes…
First day of exhibition, a very quiet one. So instead of sitting on a chair and waiting “the clients who never appeared”, I decided to walk around. Soon my walk brought me in front of the impressive stand of a big company, coming from East… a major project was displayed, big tall buildings with... »
Cannes 2009: Free lessons for the ones who want to learn…
While I was … raped again (paying for gold each and every extra kilo I had in my luggage), my brother Grigoris was still at our stand, instead of enjoying the warm Friday’s sun. I was traveling back to Bucharest (with the super expensive Air France and its nice empty planes with the very... »
MIPIM. Days 2, 3 and 4: We do have clients Do we also have the right product for them?
In few hours I will be traveling back to Bucharest (via Paris). Today the exhibition ends around 12.00 – 13.00 (workers will start deconstructing the stands after this time) and MIPIM 2009 will be history in few hours. I am writing these lines being inside the exhibition, while we have started packing our boxes…... »
Cannes, day 1: Time for Quality – Quantity is history…
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... »
Flying for Cannes…
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... »
