The Commercial Real Estate Federal Awards confirmed its reputation of professional communication platform of international level. This time the organizers have brought the pool of world investors from Germany, Great Britain, The USA, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden. During the week they visited a number of Russian cities: Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Ufa, Samara, Rostov-na-Donu. During the “Road Show”, there were meetings with regional administration, visits of construction objects and negotiations with potential partners. The voyage was over in Sochi, where Investment Forum was held in the context of Business Days of Commercial Real Estate Federal Awards. Discussions, seminars, master classes and, at last, the Ceremony of Federal Awards, gathered in Sochi more than 300 participants from 30 Russian regions. These people are owners and top-managers of profile companies, the representatives of government authority, Russian and foreign investors. The international experts admitted Commercial Real Estate Federal Awards as an event, which creates unprecedented conditions for experience exchange and development of business relationships, which marks the achievements of national industry of commercial real estate. Especially for these reasons the guests from Europe, the USA, the countries of Middle East came to Sochi to feel and understand Russian market.

More than 50 real estate objects of Russian regions from Kaliningrad to Novosibirsk took part in the Federal Awards 2007: Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Ekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Murmansk, Naberezhnie Chelni, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Perm, Rostov-na-Donu, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Sochi, Tula, Tyumen, Uliaynovsk, Chelyabinsk, Yaroslavl, St.Peterburg. According to regulations, commercial real estate objects which came into operation or were opened in the previous year in any city except Moscow (there is a separate event for the capital), take part in Commercial Real Estate Federal Awards. Besides, there are special nominations:” The developer of the Year” and “The consultant of the Year”.
Business Days were organized taking into account interests and needs of regional representatives. A number of sections envisaged in detail strategic as well as tactical problems of regional markets of commercial real estate. Such as: factors of investment attractiveness, the demands of international hotel operators to real estate projects, the demands of banks to investment projects in the sphere of development, the possibility of alternative investments, new formats of trade canters, marketing aspects in the sphere of real estate. The participants could hold a number of meetings not only in the format of business-negotiations, but also in a more comfortable meeting format “without ties”. The key event of Business Days was Investment forum. In fact, this event is a guide on the Russian market of commercial real estate. The moderator of the forum was Michael Lange, JLLS. Investment and development companies, banks, the owners of property, management and juridical companies took part in the Forum.
The culmination of the Sochi events of Federal Awards will be the ceremony of Commercial Real Estate Federal Awards 2007, which will start at 19:00 on the 16th of June in Congress hall of hotel Radisson SAS Lazurnaya. Market, which is represented by profile Awards committees, defined its leaders. During the ceremony their names will be announced by famous representatives of commercial real estate market. Detailed information will be announced “from own lips” during informal winners press-briefing on 16th of June at 22.30, immediately after Gala-dinner.

Additional information: Tatiana Leshchenko, PR-director, pr@cre-awards.ru, +7 495 540-7340, ext. 303, mob. 8-903-975-3221