A new event to be held in Moscow on 11^th & 12th November aims to help international agents break into the potentially lucrative Russian buyer market.

Russian Summit brings together some of the biggest agents working in international real estate in Russia such as Intermark Savills, Knight Frank Russia and Gordon Rock; with an audience of international agents and developers from destinations across the globe.

Ashley Rigg, director of co-organizer Globaledge.co.uk believes the event is an industry first:

Greater China leads regional growth in demand for premium office

4 August 2010 Asia – Asia’s leading commercial centres recorded impressive growth in office demand in the second quarter of 2010 as the steady regional economic recovery encouraged multinational companies to reactivate expansion plans suspended earlier after the onset of the global financial crisis, according to a leading international property consultants CB Richard Ellis.

Led by strong growth in Greater China, overall office rents in Asia rose 2.1% in the second quarter of 2010, ending seven consecutive quarters of decline. Overall vacancy declined by 90 basis points quarter-on-quarter to 10.9%. The increased level of enquiry for office space during the second quarter did not immediately translate into leasing transactions. However, this suggests that the leasing market will remain active over the coming quarters.

Enormous investment opportunities lay in the emerging superpower, says Cityscape Asia 2010

China holds enormous opportunities for investment as its economy surges, say leading economists and investment experts at Cityscape Asia 2010 in Singapore yesterday. Speaking at a keynote session on evaluating the economic outlook for China 2010 and beyond, David Wong, Chief Economist at Shui On Land, said the Asian giant is a market that investors can no longer afford to ignore. “China is undisputedly growing in relevance. Early government intervention and lower levels of debt compared to its western counterparts helped it to weather the financial storm better than most.”

Singapore – For Immediate Release, 29 March 2010: World’s largest B2B real estate investment & development exhibition and conference returns to Singapore – investors look to Asia for new opportunities post-recession

As economies show signs of recovery, the global property world is gradually turning its attention to Asia to uncover new opportunities in the regional investment landscape, say the organizers of the world’s largest international real estate investment event, Cityscape.