Welcome to Cityscape
Cityscape is owned by the Institute for International Research (IIR). IIR is part of Informa plc, the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries, employs over 9,000 staff globally and is the largest publicly owned organiser of conferences and courses in the world with an output of over 10,000 events annually.
What is Cityscape?
Cityscape's portfolio of global exhibitions, conferences, seminars and business breakfasts brings together a large cross-section of real estate professionals. These include: international investors, developers, government and investment authorities, leading architects, designers, consultants and others involved in the design and construction of real estate.
Alongside the events, Cityscape also has a global online real estate community – CityscapeConnect.com – which provides real estate professionals with the opportunity to network 24/7.
These platforms exist to enhance and support the vision for real estate growth worldwide in both mature and emerging markets.
Furthermore, Cityscape publishes the Cityscape Magazine to help real estate investors and professionals with key strategic business decisions. You will find up to the minute news stories, features, interviews with industry leaders, market data, project status and extensive industry research.
Our aim is to help our customers build profitable long-term relationships and to facilitate deal making and business transactions, whilst creating transparency and sharing unbiased information. For more information on the overall Cityscape Portfolio, contact cityscape@iirme.com
Why Cityscape Global?
A little over a year after the failure of Lehman Brothers precipitated a global financial and economic collapse, asset markets in the Global Pacific region are holding up surprisingly well compared to their peers in Europe and the United States. While both pricing and rentals in the region fell steeply in 2008 and early 2009 in step with those in the West, markets across the Global Pacific region have been lifted in the second half of the year by the remarkable resilience of the Chinese economy, which has been buoyed by a series of fiscal and monetary stimulus measures.
Based on investment prospect ratings, the top five markets in 2010 are Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, and Singapore. Chinese cities dominate the rankings this year—a reflection of a remarkable resurgence in Chinese commercial real estate as the government-mandated liquidity boom lifts markets across the country. The top cities for development prospects are Shanghai, Mumbai, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Capitalising on the enormous opportunities in the Global real estate market, Cityscape Global in its 10th year will once again bring together the industries elite to network, discuss, debate, shape and forge the future of this booming market place.
