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Scholarship Foundation Awards Grants

December 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Sanda Geipele, Latvia                        Adam Romanov, US

 

The FIABCI Scholarship Foundation Board of Trustees met in Brussels to review scholarship applications and decided to award grants to two outstanding scholars.

 

Sanda Geipele is a full-time doctoral student at the Institute of Building Entrepreneurship and Real Estate Economics at  Riga Technical University in Latvia. She us currently working on her PhD Thesis in the areas of civil construction and real estate management. The grant will assist Sanda in the presentation of the interim results of her research at international real estate conferences.

 

Adam Romanov is completing his Master’s Degree at the Schack Institute for Real Estate at New York University. Adam has an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Trinity College at the University of Toronto. He speaks English, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish  and has developed the multilateral negotiating skills necessary for a career as a global real estate diplomat.

 

 

 

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New Members Pinned at NAR Expo

November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Executive Committee Member Eugenia Foxworth pins New Member Nancy Burgess

 

For the first time in many years, FIABCI-USA had a booth at the International Networking Center at the  NAR Expo in Orlando. Traffic was brisk and we were able to demonstrate the new Technology Platform and sign up and pin members on the spot. Thank you to President Sharon Young, Eugenia Foxworth, Maire Rosol, Stan Armstrong, John Mayfield, Mailan Trinh and Chris Hall from FIABCI-UK who recruited at the various meetings and sent people to the booth.

 

Ivy Kuan, Secretary for FIABCI-Taiwan helped staff the booth and promote the 64th World Congress in Taichung. FIABCI Secretary General Patricia Delaney and FIABCI members from Canada, France, India, Panama, the Philippines, Taiwan, the UK and Ukraine were also among the attendees. Click here for more information on the NAR Expo.

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Grand Prix Award!

October 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Levine Center for the Arts             Developer: Wells Fargo Bank

 

Located on the southernmost edge of uptown Charlotte, the Center represents a world class urban experience and has laid the groundwork for the beginnings of a blossoming cultural arts revolution within the city. This dynamic development transforms over four acres of surface parking lots within Charlotte’s Center City into a vibrant and high-energy arts district. Progressive architecture interwoven with public art and carefully planned open spaces provide the opportunity for new retail and restaurants to activate and enhance the street level experience.

 
The site also includes the Duke Energy Center – the first and tallest office tower to receive the highest level of certification under the U.S. Green Building Counsel’s LEED for Core and Shell rating system Version 2.0. Click here to view a movie about the project.

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A Quiet Revolution

October 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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FIABCI-USA Member Named NAR Liaison to Panama

October 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FIABCI-USA member Carla Rayman of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate was named President’s Liaison to Panama by the National Association of REALTORS® . President’s Liaisons play a dynamic role in maintaining NAR’s partnerships with 80 national real estate associations in 59 countries. She also serves on NAR’s Global Alliances Advisory Group.

 

Rayman’s responsibilities as President’s Liaison will include hosting delegations from Panama’s real estate association, ACOBIR, who visit the U.S.A. She will also attend the conventions and meetings in Panama and be responsible for organizing trade missions and visits between real estate professionals from both countries.

 

She will focus on further developing relationships between both Associations as a strong foundation for networking between the Associations and their members.Carla has been involved with marketing, sales programs, and doing presentations in Canada, Venezuela, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Dubai, Panama, and Spain, promoting investment in Florida real estate. Carla recently returned from speaking and exhibiting at FIABCI-Brazil’s Real Estate Week.
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FIABCI-USA Member Takes on Leadership Role

October 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FIABCI-USA member Jim Kinney, CRB, CRS, GRI of Chicago has been installed as the 2013 Treasurer of the Illinois Association of REALTORS®. He is Vice President of Luxury Home Sales for Baird & Warner in Chicago. With a real estate career that spans more than 30 years, Kinney has a history of service and involvement including being named REALTOR® of the Year by the Chicago Association of REALTORS® in 2002 and Illinois REALTOR® of the Year by the Illinois Association of REALTORS® (IAR) in 2004.

 
An advocate for education, Kinney is a former dean of the IAR REALTOR® Institute and a past president of the Real Estate Educational Foundation (REEF). In 2003, REEF established a scholarship in Kinney’s name in recognition of his distinguished service to the foundation.

 
At the national level, Kinney has served on the NAR Executive Committee, Board of Directors, the Institute Advisory Committee, International Operations Committee and is a past NAR Presidential Liaison to Ireland. A graduate of Northwestern University, Kinney is President Emeritus of the Advisory Council of the Illinois Eye Bank and is a former volunteer leader with the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and the Bright Promises Foundation.

 
Congratulations Jim!

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Countdown to the UN Symposium

October 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Secretary General’s Message on World Habitat Day

 

Half the world’s people now live in towns and cities. In little more than a generation, two-thirds of the global population will be urban. As the proportion of humanity living in the urban environment grows, so too does the need to strengthen the urban focus of our efforts to reduce global poverty and promote sustainable development.

 

From necessity springs opportunity. Better planned and better functioning cities can help guide us to the future we want: cities where everyone has adequate shelter, water, sanitation, health and other basic services; cities with good education and job prospects; cities with energy-efficient buildings and public transport systems; cities where all feel they belong. Full text

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Hotel Developments Right for EB-5

September 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Visas-for-Dollars Program a Boon to Hotel Developers

The Marriott Courtyard hotel in downtown Seattle was paid for in part through a federal program that grants visas to immigrant investors.When Marriott International wanted to open a new hotel in downtown Seattle, the company’s developers didn’t sell bonds, take out a mortgage or tap other traditional forms of financing for the $88 million project. Instead, it raised the bulk of the money from wealthy immigrants who wanted a green card.

A government program, which grants so-called EB-5 visas to foreigners who invest at least $500,000 in an American business, is now a popular source of financing for new Marriott hotels. Since the Seattle deal in 2008, the company has endorsed 14 projects that use EB-5 financing, including the downtown Milwaukee Marriott, a Courtyard Marriott in Midtown Manhattan and a $168 million hotel near the Staples Center in Los Angeles. “It’s created liquidity in a relatively illiquid market,” said Anthony Capuano, the chief development officer at Marriott. Click here for full New York Times story.

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World Urban Forum

August 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FIABCI-USA President Sharon K. Young is in Naples, Italy for the 6th World Urban Forum. On Monday September 3 at 5 pm she will host a Networking Event for participants – Beyond Homes: Building the Urban Community. This event will engage participants in an interactive review highlighting progress in the provision of affordable housing, links to youth employment opportunities and advances in building materials, technologies and equipment to meet supply and demand.

 

Participants will examine how public and private sector providers could reduce obstacles to a more bountiful supply, noting that construction, including housing and infrastructure constitutes up to 45% of gross fixed capital formation. They will also examine how the impact of activities on the social and natural environments of existing settlements and communities-in-formation might lead to new working relationships with public and private enterprises.

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Global Transparency Index

August 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Real estate investors and corporate occupiers are widening their activity across a broader range of markets, which is encouraging faster rates of transparency improvement in ‘growth’ and ‘emerging’ economies as their markets open up further to international competition and their real estate sectors embrace international best practice. Top improvers in 2012 are dominated by markets in Latin America, South East Asia and South East Europe. The 2012 Index puts the MIST markets (Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey) among the leading improvers. Turkey once again heads the global league table of transparency improvement; Mexico sits in third place and Indonesia in sixth.

Click here to find out more.

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