Expectation high as Salami speaks at FIABCI Business Dinner 2017

Among real estate professionals and other stakeholders, expectation is high as the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI), Nigeria Chapter, hosts Doyin Salami, an economist and teacher at the Lagos Business School (LBS) as guest speaker in their Annual Award and Business Dinner 2017 slated for Friday this week.

The erudite economist will be speaking on ‘Real Estate: It is All About the Economy’ which is the theme of this year’s dinner that will be gathering together diverse interests in real estate at the Cosmopolitan Events Centre on Victorian Island, Lagos.

The federation will be using this event to honour and promote individuals and institutions it has recognized as drivers of growth in the real estate sector,  hoping that this move will help motivate the domestic real estate space and that the award would also help to drive excellence, encourage creativity and promote good business environment.

“This is an annual event through which we provide insights on real estate and contribute to national economic space”, explained Joseph Akhigbe, president, FIABCI Nigeria, said.  He  listed the five various categories of awards slated for this year as Finance (Most Effective Real Estate Financier), Architecture and Design, Public Private Partnership, Real Estate Journalist, and Developer/Urban Planning.

As a worldwide real estate organization, FIABCI membership cuts across all segments of real estate industry including commercial, residential, retail, commercial office and industrial space. It has members in 65 countries including 100 professional associations, 65 academic institutions and 3,000 individual members.

“FIABCI is the most representative organization of the real estate industry in the world and holds special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSCOC) of the United Nations”, Akhigbe informed, assuring that the forth-coming annual dinner would provoke thoughts on  both the economy and the real estate sector.