Hello from Munich. After having concluded more than 25 meetings during the first 2 days of EXPO REAL, it is clear that the skepticism of foreign investors regarding Romania remains strong. This is a long discussion, with many different issues that should be taken into consideration. But today let us discuss the reasons which are beyond our control and prevent foreign investors from returning to Romania. Let us explore 10 of them together: The international economic environment. Too many companies consider that October of 2011 is similar to October of 2008, in terms of risks and problems [...]

  (Being in EXPO REAL, I already have started talking to investors about Romania. We will talk more about this tomorrow, but I think that today it makes sense to share with you my relevant article for the next edition of TAROM magazine.)   I came to Romania in January 2004 and since then I have engaged with people looking for potential investments on a daily basis, which is normal for someone involved in Real Estate, Green Energy and Liaison Services. Throughout the years, I have noticed significant changes in the way that foreign businessmen approached investment opportunities here. [...]

  Our social circle includes too many people who own at least one property and they try to sell it. Until 2008 this was “a piece of cake”. They just had to call a few guys, inform them about the property and in no time clients were waiting for a meeting. It did not matter if the property was properly presented or not. Investors were able to forgive you, for not being serious, being patient until the transaction. They were asking their lawyers to be fast and try to be “correct in their work, without upsetting the owner”. Even if this owner had provided them half of [...]

Real Estate is a complicated and difficult segment. It might look easy from the outside, but the reality is 100% different. This is why I try to reply to all your questions, here in my blog plus in the special section that we organized together with www.imobiliare.ro. Usually I reply there in the last Wednesday of every month, but as today I am attending the ICSC conference, only for this month I will reply to your questions tomorrow, on Thursday. You can leave your questions here. In order to… warm up for tomorrow, I chose 20 questions from the tens that I received. I tried to choose questions [...]

  It was almost 18 months ago when I shared with you my opinion regarding the future of the Romanian economy. For those who have forgotten, during the beginning of 2010 there were too many people and media who were sure that we exited the crisis (the same ones who celebrated the end of the crisis in the beginning of 2011 as well). At that time I described to you the 3 scenarios for the Romanian economy. You can check them here: The positive scenario. The negative and the more realistic one. The negative scenario proved out to be the right one. For some months the more realistic one gained [...]