5th CEE Property & Investment Fair
CEPIF 2008

The 5th anniversary of CEE Property & Investment Fair (CEPIF 2008) ended with huge success. Over two days the Warsaw International EXPO XXI Centre hosted 2972 participants. Thereby CEPIF confirmed and strengthened its leading status among real estate events in Central & Eastern Europe.

At one place and at one time CEPIF 2008 gathered major regional decision-makers: developers, property agents and managers, investors, local and regional authorities, architects, financial advisors and bankers, lawyers, engineers, analysts and other real estate professionals.

CEPIF 2008 was a series of complementary events organized by the best global standards. This year’s edition of CEPIF included the following linked events: commercial exhibition fairs, substantive conferences and seminars, prestigious CEPIF Awards competition and solemn CEPIF Gala Party. Every part of CEPIF 2008 enjoyed huge popularity.

On the first day of CEPIF the TVN CNBC Biznes transmitted live broadcasts from a special assigned studio at the fair.

CEPIF Fairs

Over two days approximately 150 exhibitors presented their hottest offers. Among them there were leading developers: Salwator Group (CEPIF 2008 Main Sponsor), J.W. Construction Holding, Bouygues Immobilier, Caleum Development, Lubasa, PB Margo, Day & Johnson, Taylor Woodrow, Tufan Properties, Mermaid Properties, Wings Development, Verity Development, LC Corp Sky Tower, RD Bud, RED – Real Estate Development, Centrum ZANA, Opal Development, Budopol, Asta Bridge International Property Development and Bulgarian Land Development. more »

CEPIF Conferences

CEPIF 2008 Conferences once again enjoyed huge popularity among guests visiting CEPIF at the EXPO XXI Centre. Heated, but still substantive discussions among the speakers broke during some of the parts, which allowed the attendees to keep track of full-profile of real estate experts’ opinions. And for yet another year running, the CEPIF conferences took the pride in the stature of their speakers. more »

CEPIF Seminars

14 seminars allowed CEPIF 2008 participants to learn something about the issues which at the moment are in the very centre of interest of the real estate community. Among other things, the seminars included the following topics: public-partner partnership applications in Poland (moderated by Joanna Kalecinska/White&Case), revitalization (moderated by Aleksander Hetko/White&Case), public and high-rise buildings (Jose Federico Rodriguez Villacorta and Joaquin Bono Safont/Giner & Bono), property valuation (James Bauer/REAG and Achim Lenzen of Berlin Hyp/Landes Bank Berlin) and law issues (Katarzyna Zaczkiewicz-Zborska/Gazeta Prawna daily) and fiscal aspects of investing in CEE (moderated by Dominik Stojek/Delloite). The series of seminars was ended by the presentations of investment possibilities in the Russian Federation by representatives of Russian authorities. more »

CEPIF Awards

The winners of the prestigious CEPIF & the International Herald Tribune CEE Best Project Awards were decided. During the solemn Gala Party, crystal statuettes were awarded to the best development projects in 7 categories. All of them were handed to the key players of the CEE real estate community. more »

CEPIF Gala Party

The evening and solemn CEPIF Gala Party in Fort Legionow (or the Legions’ Fort) was the climax of the first day of CEPIF 2008 (14 May). It was then when the winners of the CEPIF Awards competition were announced. more »

News

Antonio Giner, Joaquin Bono - Head Architect, General Manager

1. What are the architectural tendencies in public buildings and spaces development nowadays?
Unfortunately, we are immersed in a high competitive society which demands the architects to design a landmark for each project. These circumstances make the architects forget the real purpose of public buildings, which is to solve the people’s needs. more »

Tom Listowski - Associate Director - Head of Industrial Department CB Richard Ellis Polska Sp. z o.o.

1. What are the development directions in the CEE warehouse sector?

Centre of gravity is moving East. Relocation of industry into Central and Eastern Europe from Western Europe and USA. more »

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