How many Italian operators of the real estate are members of RICS Italy and what’s the budget of 2010? How many members will you have at the end of the year?
The professional figures relating to RICS are many and belong to different Professional Group formerly called Faculties with different roles within their corporate structures. Today there are about 280 members and our expectation is for a predicted growth of membership of 20-30%.
The objective is not easy, considering the requirements and the training required highly selective, but I think in this particular historical moment, the real estate market requires and needs qualified professionals being recognized internationally.
How much did the Italian RICS contribute to improve professional standars, competence and transparency of the real estate market in recent years?
I do not think being able to define what may have been the contribution given by RICS to the housing marke... [MORE]

Surface area 45,000 square meters, with a 10,000 m2 hypermarket and 135 retail units - including nine midsize stores, an eight-unit food court, a Bingo hall and 117 shops - about 2,500 parking spaces, construction value € 85 million. These are the key figures for Le Cotoniere, the new shopping center CDS has started building at Salerno (in the Fratte area), at the intersection of the Caserta-Salerno and Naples-Reggio Calabria motorways, an area 15 mines north of...
In its latest property market analysis, Henderson Global Investors examines the prospects for the Italian property market. Two decades of anemic economic growth, the absence of meaningful structural reforms and notorious dysfunctional politics do not help Italy’s reputation as an investment destination. Additionally, the global recession has earned Italy a membership in the infamous ‘Club Med’, alongside the struggling economies of Greece, Portugal and ...
by Pietro Malaspina, President of CNCC (Italian Council of Shopping Centers)





