If the Etruscans and Ancient Romans had not thought up the atrium, modern marketers would have had to do it anyway. This essential structural element proves that architecture really can assist commerce successfully. One must know how to use the atrium properly, however, and how to take advantage of its ...

As national and foreign investors take keener interest in the regional hospitality market, developers are ever more frequently inviting well-known western architects to realize large-scale regional projects. Although their services are way more expensive, the customers assume that world-renowned architects heighten the appeal of their properties to investors. Continue Reading...

Winter gardens in offices are gradually becoming more commonplace, and there are several reasons why. First of all, bosses have begun to view their staff with a higher degree of respect, understanding that the creature comforts brought in to make their office time more pleasant will ultimately be repaid a ...

Moscow has almost ten decades of history. However, not a single building or structure remains that was built when the city was founded. By comparison, none of Rome’s rulers, a city with twenty decades of history, dared to even consider “touching” the ruins of its ancient buildings. Moscow’s reality is that ...

One of the priorities of the country is now investment in infrastructure to make its economy work better. Massive investment is planned for spending on highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, water systems, sewage treatment, transport systems and other public infrastructure. This activity will create significant demand for real estate appraisal work ...

An Appraisal Professionals Society (SPO) has been established in St. Petersburg at the initiative of St. Petersburg Property Fund and the Urban Real Estate Inventory and Appraisal Department (GUION), the main customers of appraisal services. Experts believe the creation of this structure is timely in light of the fact that ...

Last month in this column we presented the factors involved in valuing real estate development companies – through the drivers of their net assets using a multiple that accounted for the reloading adjustment; or alternatively a less direct discounted cash flow analysis. This month, we focus on the single-property owning ...