Real Estate Business Issue 5/2008

IMMO-WORLD

• Lake Como: Versace's villa sold
• Sheikhs build spectacular tower on Lake Lugano
• Waldhotel Daves; Where Thomas Mann once stayed
• Living in the desert: New luxury villas in Oman
• Immo-Monitoring 2008/2: Normalisation after the crisis
• Geneva and Zurich: Expansion of the Business Centers
• Megacity with 70 hotels: Major project in Saudi Arabia
• Golf star Tiger Woods: New estate on Long Island

PLAYER

• Roger Diener: Architecture in the field of tension between tradition and modernity

MARKETS & INVESTMENT

• Cleverly placed and well parked: Parking garages
• Hotel shares under the microscope: risks and returns
• Swiss real estate stock corporations master the crisis
• No crash risk for residential real estate

SERVICE

• Master of Advanced Studies: The path to becoming a real estate manager
• Asking Rents: Rents climb and climb
• Financial markets: Switzerland, Europe, North America and Asia

PROJECTS & OBJECTS

• The Palace project in Lugano - between culture and commerce
• Rosebud Hotel Holding: Movement on the Bürgenstock
• Ras al-Khaimah: Floating solar island made in Switzerland
• Heavenwards: New high-rise ensemble in Zurich North

ARCHITECTURE & LIVING

• Committed to classical modernism: Renovation in Gockhausen

HOTEL-WORLD

• Hotel investment with emotion: The Belvoir above Lake Zurich

CLOSEOUT

• Ruth Waldburger, film distributor and producer: "Cinema will not die".

HEADLINES

• Editorial: Worthwhile investments
• Imprint
• Column: Irene Lanz on the value of paper
• Agenda: Trade fairs, meetings, conferences
• Event: Discussion on Lex Koller
• Job market