Interviews

Georg Folian:
28-03-07
"We would like to roll out a network of budget hotels all over the region"

Sergei Polonsky:
11-03-07
"The companies implementing high-rise construction in the market of any country are really few"

Wolfgang Lunardon:
08-03-07
"We are aware of the importance of local companies: they can also become very strong tenants"

Alexandr Shkarupa:
05-03-07
"Russia and Ukraine are primarily local markets, dominated by local developers and investors"

Jörg Banzhaf:
23-02-07
"In 10-20 years it will be clear who are the successful real estate developers operating in SEE"

Ivana Veselinovic:
14-02-07
"Our objective is to establish our position as the leading company in the region in the fields of food retail and real estate"

Janet Woo:
25-01-07
"The Bank is reducing the overall risk associated with entering new markets"

Ion Radulea:
16-01-07
"All our future developments will remain in our investment portfolio"

Holger Schmidtmayr:
10-01-07
"Yields are only one of the factors determining our investment decisions"

Lev Partskhaladze:
03-01-07
"We are open to profitable for both parties involved joint-operations with foreign companies"

Skip Schwartz:
18-12-06
"I am sure that Russia and Ukraine will be on our radar for future investments"

Andrew Jackson:
11-12-06
"When you have risk you always want to mitigate it and title insurance is a way of mitigating it"

Eduard Uzunov:
05-12-06
"After the hottest areas are fully occupied, the ones closest to them will become most interesting"

Stefan Enchev:
04-12-06
"There are already customers with contemporary requirements about quality of life and a general social medium"

Yannis Delikanakis:
30-11-06
"In SEE you have to be opportunistic and cannot afford the “luxury” of focusing in one sector"

Nicos Michaelas:
28-11-06
"Our strategy is to buy the land with own funds and leverage the project at the development stage"

Ilyan Nikolov:
20-11-06
"Considerable relocation of the population with regard to social status is expected"

Bruno Ettenauer:
20-11-06
"We focus on the SEE region and our goal is to be a sustainable partner"

Tanya Kosseva-Boshova:
08-11-06
"Due to the limited market offering many funds prefer to concentrate on project developments"

Ivo Hesmondhalgh:
07-11-06
"I can see the residential developers in Bulgaria who are moving into commercial property increasing"

Rossen Kolev:
06-11-06
"The project management market is still free"

Roger P. Peters:
05-11-06
"Prices are going up and it is still a sellers market"

Guy Speir:
25-10-06
"I believe that private equity at this moment allows quicker decision making"

Michail Popov:
23-10-06
“We are seeing a rather high growth in the number of Romanian tourists”

Manuel Ferry Sanchez:
18-10-06
“15 percent more golfers in Europe each year”