Roman Record spotlights business, public info

Records on more than $3,185,600 in real estate transactions and $732,350 in building permits are published in this week’s edition.

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Greater Rome and Lazio region to present major projects at Expo Real 2007 in Munich

The public administrations representing Rome and the Region of Lazio will participate together in the upcoming edition of EXPO REAL in Munich (October 8-10, 2007) as the Greater Rome and Lazio region. Following their success in other international real estate markets, such as MIPIM 2007 in Cannes, the City of Rome, Province of Rome, Region of Lazio (in collaboration with Sviluppo Lazio, the Region`s development agency) and the Rome Chamber of Commerce, are bringing their projects to the 2007 edition of Munich`s EXPO REAL, an increasingly popular international market that spotlights the real estate sector, with a special focus on urban development. Its 2006 edition counted 21,111 visitors from 40 countries and 1,638 exhibitors.

Second Italian Brokerage in Two Months Joins LuxuryRealEstate.com Network

Great Estate Immobiliare, a luxury real estate firm in central Italy, recently became the second Italian brokerage firm in the past two months to join the global LuxuryRealEstate.com network of more than 1,400 brokers and firms. This is the ninth Italian luxury real estate firm to join LuxuryRealEstate.com.

“European markets are well-known for their luxury destinations, and I’m pleased to see a growing number of European brokers joining our network,” said John Brian Losh, CEO and publisher of LuxuryRealEstate.com, and broker, chairman and CEO of Ewing & Clark, Inc., Seattle’s oldest real-estate brokerage. “Great Estate Immobiliare will gain excellent exposure to millions of high-net-worth buyers on www.LuxuryRealEstate.com, which is consistently ranked as the most-viewed luxury real estate Web site in the world.”

Pirelli sets payout, buyback, boosting tire stake

Pirelli & C on Friday it announced plans for an extraordinary dividend, a share buyback and an offer to repurchase a stake in its tire business, meeting market expectations.
Flush with billions of euros of cash from the sale of its stake in Telecom Italia , the Italian holding company proposed an extraordinary dividend of 0.154 euros per share for a total of about 827 million euros.
It said it would keep another 408 million euros in reserve to buy back its own shares at an "opportune" time.

Property in Tuscany: Seduced by the sun-soaked charms of Casanova

The large-ish buildings are on one hectare of land, with chicken coops, cypresses of its own, a cherry tree, a stone drinking trough for animals and an ugly pylon obscuring the best view. That would definitely need moving a few yards down the slope - perfectly possible, apparently. Its existence, however, has the advantage of signifying that water and electricity are already on site, thus minimising the need to deal with megalomaniac local government.

Life in Italy - Telegraph Mentor

Le Marche: The region forms the eastern seaboard of central Italy with the regions of Emilia-Romagna to the north and Abruzzo to the south.

The region's name is pronounced "lay markay" , is plural (Le Marche) and is sometimes known as "The Marches" in English.

The total population of the region is around 1.5 million with an average density of less than 150 inhabitants per square kilometre. The region covers just under 10,000 square kilometres.