Brazil’s stand will occupy more than 1,000sqm
Fuente: SimaPress - Diego Uriarte, Oficina de Prensa SIMA08
Brazil will play a major role in this year’s International Madrid Real Estate Exhibition edition; in fact, its stand will be the biggest of the exhibition -1,180 square meters-and also, an International Program’s monographic session will be devoted to Real Estate investment in the country, a topic to be explained by, among other specialists, João Batista, president of Secovi-SP, Sao Paulo’s Developers Association.
A total of 50 Brazilian development companies will share the 1,180 square meters stand this Latin America country will set up, which means 800 square meters more than last edition’ one Brazil had in SIMA. Visitors will be able to find second-homes products, properties for vacation purposes or residential development projects, as well as different options of land for sale.
The major part Brazil will play in SIMA’s exhibition area will be reflected in the significant role it will perform in the International Program (IPP). In order to analyze this country’s Real Estate market, its business opportunities and the key issues to be considered to safely invest in Brazil, IPP has included in its schedule a monographic session, called “Workshop Brasil”.
“Workshop Brasil” program will start with a lecture given by Marta Suplicy, Brazil’s Minister of Tourism, who will explain the importance of tourism activities in Real Estate investment. Afterwards, João Batista, president of Secovi-SP, will examine the macroeconomic situation of the Real Estate market. Other speakers, chaired by Fábio Mercadante Mortadi, director of Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, will describe both legal certainty issues and main aspects related to a wide range of investment options in Brazil.
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The IPP will develop two thematic sessions about Brazil and Eastern Europe addressed to investors
Fuente: SimaPress - Diego Uriarte, Oficina de Prensa SIMA08
The thematic sessions or “workshops”, chaired and leaded by experts on the debate of the meeting, will be a great tool for investors that would like to enter in these markets. In the case of Brazil, the Minister of Tourism, Marta Suplicy and João Batista Crestana, chairman of Secovi-SP, will make an exposition about the real estate inversion keys in the touristic sector and an exposition about the status of the real estate market in Brazil, respectively.
Maintaining the current strategy to promote emerging markets, the workshop about Eastern Europe, will deliver an estimation of the new possibilities of Romania and Bulgaria after their entry into the Economic Union and also the situation of the business in Balkans countries. Illias Papageorgiadis, CEO of More International Invest, Romania and Javier Ortiz, Property Consultant for the Balkans area will be two of the experts presenting the business in these countries and the expectations of the market.
Argentina, the apple in Latin America’s eye
Fuente: SimaPress
Companies from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Panama, Mexico and Chile will take part in SIMA’s tenth edition once again. “Some of the most used formulas by entrepreneurs and investors to penetrate Latin American markets are to purchase huge buildings in financial districts in order to rent them out as companies’ headquarters, to buy land in the coastline to build second-home developments or to buy apartments under a condo-hotel system”, points out Santiago Herreros de Tejada.
Argentina will have one of the most numerous representations of those participating in SIMA08. According to Jaime Garbasky, president of Grupo Ecipsa, “the apple in the eye” of Latin America generates profits up to 35 percent of the property’s original value, and annual incomes for renting activities are about 12 percent. Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Panama and Uruguay are some of the other Latin American markets that will participate in SIMA08. “Chile’s higher degree of legal certainty, Uruguayan second-home housing developments and resorts in the pipeline and a strong demand of properties in Mexico are some of the attractive factors of those markets”, says Santiago Herreros de Tejada, director of International Expansion of Planner Reed.
New International Pavilion
Fuente: SimaPress - María Alonso, Jefa de prensa
SIMA’s international area has been one of the spaces which grew the most in the recent years. This increasing exhibitors’ growth, along with the rising number of international visitors, has brought about the creation of a new international pavilion which will gather all the products from international markets. Up to now, exhibitors from Panama, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates and Egypt, have confirmed their participation.
Thereby, SIMA08 visitors will find, in a same pavilion, all the properties offered by international companies, devoted to be used either as main or second home.
