10th RINFOR to gather hundreds of property investors and developers interested in the Balkans market

Sofia, Bulgaria (12 September 2006) – Hundreds of senior representatives of international and local real estate developers and investors are to join the 10th edition of the RINFOR – Real Estate & Investment Forum which is to take place between 31 October and 3 November at Sheraton Sofia, Bulgaria under the motto “Real Projects, Real Players, Real Opportunities”.

RINFOR – Real Estate & Investment Forum is a three day large scale conference focused on the real estate and tourism in Bulgaria and Romania. It is the only regular (semiannual) B2B networking event on the Balkans attended each time by more than 500 delegates – key executives from both local and international companies.

The topics that would be discussed will feature the main issues like:

• Risk vs. return – are the Balkan emerging markets still worth investing?
• Residential or commercial – which is the pillar of the regional property market?
• Retail rush in the region – is the trend still a friend?
• Downtown or the suburbs - where is the best location for office developments?
• Logistics – more conversations or rather action?
• Leisure developments – the next boom in the local real estate market?
• To go alone or join a chain - crucial decision for hotel developers
• Contemporary developments in rural areas – vacation spots for wealthy outsiders?
• Internet and real estate – how is the technology changing the business?

George Dutchev, Program Director of the RINFOR comments: “The real estate markets in South East Europe and especially in Romania and Bulgaria, expected to join the European Union next year, develop dynamically, which makes the professionals face new challenges and nowadays they are looking for more thorough and comprehensive information, striving to establish reliable business contacts with local partners. Meeting these particular needs RINFOR has gained ground in the last few years as a “must go” event and welcome as delegates, sponsors and speakers some of the most prominent names on the international scene, such as Heitman International, Eurohypo, Morgan Stanley, GLL Real Estate Partners, Immoeast, Citigroup Property Investors, TriGranit Development, Accor, Intercontinental Hotels Group, ECE, Engel East Europe and many others.”


The novelty of the forthcoming event is the RINFOR Business Match system, which role is to help the delegates in advance to find the contact details of every company and person to take part in the event as well as information about their activities, thus enabling them with the use of the internal system of personal messages exchange to arrange preliminary meetings during the conference days in a special purpose zone. This new and powerful networking tool is expected to seriously increase the benefits of RINFOR participation for speakers, delegates and sponsors.

Event partner of the 10th RINFOR will be the well-known market player RE/MAX.

The organizer of RINFOR - Optimum Center is also well known as the publisher of the professional magazine ‘Property Xpress”.

Contact Information

Iva Georgieva

Managing Director

Optimum Center

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