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The summary of the IX “Foreign Real Estate Showroom”

The IX “Foreign Real Estate Showroom” was held in St. Petersburg, March 26-28. 116 participating companies presented to visitors their offers in more than 40 countries. The last Showroom again confirmed that Russia remains one of the most attractive and promising market for sellers of foreign real estate.

The survey of the exhibitors, conducted by research company Infowave, showed that foreign real estate stably is in demand among Russians and only increases from year to year. It is associated with a high cost of the St. Petersburg’s realty and the lack of sun in the Northern Capital and the desire to invest in a promising market of foreign real estate.

In search of better

Interviewed representatives of the companies agreed that the spring 2010 is the best time to purchase property abroad and therefore prepared the most advantageous offers for visitors. Thus, residential and commercial real estate of nearly any taste and purse were presented at the exhibition. A composition and a search of visitors were varied: they were wealthy people and married couples with middle-incomes, who were interested in options "for relaxation" or "for future", pensioners and students who were interested in immigration programs related to the purchase of real estate. Everyone could find something for themselves: from cheap apartments in Bulgaria and Greece to the home premium in France and Switzerland.

Forward to the sun and sea!

Visitors of the exhibition - about 7,5 thousand people – mainly focused their attention on the resort property on the coasts. The Spring Showroom included all the most popular destinations. Thus, real estate in Spain and Portugal was represented at 18 stands, Italy and France - 20, Cyprus and Greece - 19, Turkey - 6, Croatia and Montenegro - at 12 stands. And, of course, the most popular trend in the past years – Bulgaria – was represented by 30 companies. This year a steady interest in real estate in Bulgaria was fueled by the planned entry of Bulgaria into the Schengen zone in 2011, which makes resident status particularly attractive by its easy access for buyers of Bulgarian property. Learn more about what opportunities are available "complete" with real estate in this and other foreign countries visitors could at the seminars. Every day during the exhibition there were discussed all aspects of transactions in various parts of the world: from Finland to the Caribbean islands.

Save and multiply

While the main part of visitors was looking for real estate on the coasts, a smaller but more active group of investors was seeking for other proposals. If the resort real estate for the crisis year has lost in costs in average 15-20%, then the urban property has lost only 7-8%. The same ratings of the least affected market, where countries of Central and Northern Europe are dominated. This fact explains the interest of investors, who switched from a resort to the urban real estate in Europe, primarily in countries such as Czech Republic, Germany, France, Finland. Incidentally, the number of companies that offered Finnish real estate in this time significantly had increased up to 10.

The visitors also showed attention to new proposals of the exhibition: mortgaging real estate in Spain, shared ownership realty in Italy, timeshare apartments in Finland.

Special prices only for 3 days

An original navigator for those who were looking for the most favorable terms of purchase became the "Gallery of Special offers" - information about a variety of bonuses and discounts in effect during the exhibition. All "Gallery’s” offers presented by the participants of the IX Showroom were seen on the exhibition site www.y-expo.ru, and the most interesting offers - in a specialized magazine "Vash Dom za Rubezhom” and in a leading business edition in St.Petersburg - newspaper “Delovoy Peterburg” ".

Impressions of the event’s participants

According to the survey, conducted by research company Infowave, exhibitors were satisfied with the organization of the IX Foreign Real Estate Showroom. Representatives of the companies noted powerful information support of the exhibition, which gave the results in a large number of visitors.

The permanent exhibitors of the Showroom explained their commitment to the exhibition by its high popularity, both among "colleagues-competitors" and among citizens. Many foreign companies, who are new entrants into the Russian market, elected as the primary means of their promotion the participation in the Showroom, referring to the positive feedback from their colleagues in business.

Most of the exhibitors are confident in the effectiveness of participation in exhibitions like the Foreign Real Estate Showroom, where you can find not only customers, but even new partners. They believe that this exhibition is the most successful as a way to promote your company and as a platform for sales.

General sponsor of the IX Foreign Real Estate Showroom – DREAMHOME

The next anniversary X Foreign Real Estate Showroom
will take place in November, 5-7 in Peterburgsky SCC
See you soon!