October 29, 2007. Hotel Splendid, Becici, Montenegro

Ekonomist Media Group - General sponsor UEP Montenegro
The First Annual Conference
Real Estate Market in the Adriatic Region:
Montenegro - New Horizon

The conference aims to tackle most of the pressing issues in real estate, with a special focus on current market trends in Montenegro, Croatia and Albania. The focal point of the first annual conference will be ownership issues and the development of infrastructure.The conference will also examine the latest developments in the legal framework, strategies for real estate financing, as well as problems and risks tied to the local market. Montenegro will receive special attention at the conference, as currently the most attractive real estate market in South East Europe, as will similar trends in other countries of the Adriatic Region.
The participants at the conference will include representatives of governments of the region and state institutions with authority over real estate development, local and foreign investors, real estate developers, managers of leading construction companies, investment funds, banks, leasing companies and leading providers of legal and consulting services.

Some of the topics include:

* Ownership issues – how to protect domestic and foreign investors
* Regional tendencies: financial boom or boomerang
* Potentials for linking attractive projects: marinas, cableways and heliodromes
* Growth of the commercial space market: are the investments in business-parks and shopping centers attractive?
* Analysis and projection of real estate prices in the Adriatic Region market - problem of the market saturation
* Financing strategies – how to maximize the profit?
* Luxury resorts vs mass tourism
* Linking Albania, Croatia and Montenegro – road infrastructure and regional linking of the Adriatic zone
* Improving waterways and sewerage systems – a precondition for modernizing the Montenegrin tourist sector
* Urban look of the seaside: how to protect the authentic look and at the same time meet the demands of the interested investors .