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The real estate show expected 200,000 visitors for this edition

Barcelona Meeting Point takes the Spanish real estate market pulse

Drafting Interempresas15/10/2008

October 15, 2008

This year, and already are twelve, the fairground of Montjuïc in Barcelona welcomes the Barcelona Meeting Point, one of the most important real estate of our country. With more than 650 exhibitors from 21 nationalities, and a total of 61 participating countries, Hall hopes that in the five days the event, from 4 to 9 November, spend some 200,000 visitors.

Barcelona Meeting Point celebrates its twelfth edition in a hot time for the national and international real estate sector, and of greatest interest for the citizen both foot you are looking for real estate, to the professional of the sector products.

A new feature that provides the current edition of BMP are the presentations within the professional exhibition rooms. For exhibitors who wish to have a space apart from his stand to make a presentation to companies that do not have a booth but wish to have a space for a couple of hours, Barcelona Meeting Point offers you these rooms, which have a capacity for about 100 people, and which are fully equipped so that companies can present to the public their latest or projects that want to promote.

Panama and Sao Paolo, country and city guests

Panama is the guest country of Barcelona Meeting Point 2008 with an exclusive exhibition of more than 4,000 square metres area. This exhibition space has several Panamanian companies include Inmobilia Panama, Mallol & Mallol architects, Corcione group, global group, Administrator General of projects, companies Bern, Encaix Models Lab, etc.

Panama is living a moment of great construction activity of luxurious buildings, shopping centers and homes. It is a country that has low prices, high potential and low cost of labor with a long tour of future returns.

By his side, following the success of the initiative last year, this edition of BMP will again feature an exclusive exhibition for the Brazilian real estate market area: "Live & Invest in Brazil". In addition, Sao Paulo will be the guest city of the living room. Sâo Paulo is a very important metropolis, which represents 60 percent of GDP in Brazil.

With a Symposium at the edge of the present day

The parallel to the fair Symposium will have important events which will discuss the current situation of the real estate market. Along with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), BMP organizes the Conference 'The future that awaits us after the current housing crisis' that will take place on November 5 on the housing crisis and how to survive. ULI collaborates with Barcelona Meeting Point since its first edition, but this year will have more weight than ever before, as also, along the 22 @ organized another Conference on cities and real estate investment to be held on Tuesday, November 4. The rest of appointments will be targeted to know if the emerging markets such as Brazil, India or Russia are good business opportunities; the public funding of private projects; the European real estate market analysis; etc.

Again the Endesa Awards 'most sustainable property development'

After the good reception of the first edition, Barcelona Meeting Point welcomes more sustainable BMP 2008 for the second consecutive year the Endesa awards to the real estate promotion. These awards are intended disclosure and the promotion of sustainable construction, as well as the recognition of the developers who are already working in this direction. The awards are characterized by a comprehensive assessment of the promotion, i.e., takes into account both technical aspects of marketing and marketing.

An area dedicated to Eastern Europe and the other to the United Arab Emirates

Given the success of the three past issues of Central Europe Meeting Point and the first Meeting Point Bucharest, BMP has adapted a space within the professional exhibition where will be represented in exclusive exhibitors from Central Europe and eastward. This space will feature companies from Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, among which are Danube Homes, Magyar Ingatlan Tanács (Association of Hungarian entrepreneurs), Chorus Land, Gestitram, Excel Group, city of Gdansk (Poland) or WSSE 'Investment Park' of Watbrziych.

BMP has also this year the presence of a delegation of prominent entrepreneurs, developers and investors of the United Arab Emirates, country which has been experiencing an unlimited economic growth in recent years. Last year, real estate agents calculated that the value of investments in Dubai was close to the $ 150 billion.

Professional vision

Taking advantage of the event, and intended to give insight into the more general and complete as possible of the tertiary and industrial real estate in an economic context such as this, Interempresas wanted to have the main professionals of the sector's view on how they see the market and where is heading.

Atisreal, CB Richard Ellis, Exa, Haviland, Hercesa companies, Jones Lang LaSalle, Jordà & Guasch, King Sturge, Miradia and browsing bring us his point of view and answer us three basic questions:

• Industrial and logistics sector seems to be to weather the current economic situation... but to what extent believes that it can be affected in the long term?

• According to your experience, what advice give businesses seeking new facilities?

• And how the spread of logistics parks along throughout the Spanish geography?

Also, Enrique Lacalle, President of the Barcelona Meeting Point, offers us his opinion about the contest, which takes place in a particularly sensitive time for the construction sector.