Bratislava always was against „the rest of Slovakia“in certain opposition. It was in mental, educational or intellectual opposition, where it set a store by not always well-grounded superiority as well ideological. In spite of changing political composition of the lawmaking body and state executive, the city council and the government use to be stable traditionally: rightist and cosmopolitan. In spite of that it is not secret, that various, many times curious political configurations, are created on the level of the so called small – communal policy in order to achieve short-term individual or group targets, which would be unthinkable among deputies of the national parliament. It is maybe a bit more normal, nearer to human nature. However, one thing exists, which codifies all actors of communal policy in opinions: no adequate status of the metropolis in the state.

One of the methods how to get rid of something we do not need or to gain funds if needed is an auction. Compared to a usual sale where the seller gets for the offered thing “only” the price he/she set as acceptable in advance, an auction accents obviously the market principle and the achieved prize expresses the interest of the market. It can therefore bring much more than a simple sale, for example through a real estate agency. Advantages of this method of sale are even more accelerated by electronic auctions which eliminate to a significant extent weaknesses of traditional auctions.

“Some provisions are simply brutal!” – that is what a Czech lawyer says about the current wordings of building contracts, i.e. the contractual arrangement between developers and their construction contractors. This only applies to the Czech Republic – as usual, the situation is somewhat different in the West, even in this regard. Especially Anglo-Saxon countries have been trying for some time to breathe fresh air into customer-supplier relationships in the construction sector, moving from mutual suspicions and rivalry to a more cooperative stance.

As we informed several times, TriGranit Company obtained the Developer of year 2008 award at the second year of CiJ Awards Slovakia, which has already met to plan and realize several large multifunctional and administrative projects in Slovakia capital since year 1997. By which it explains the reality that in current extraordinary hard competition it came in the match for such prestige title like a winner? „Predominantly by quality, attractiveness and multifunction of our projects, including continuous enlarging and innovation of offered services, “JUDr. Gábor Zászlós, chairman of the TriGranit Development Corporation board of directors, answered this question and other questions of the Internet magazine Stavebné fórum.sk as well.

This decade, few segments of commercial real estates have shown such a dynamic development as logistics parks, which are used as retail distribution centres as well as premises for secondary industrial production. However, their construction, which culminated in 2007, already experienced attenuation last year, and it looks like this trend will continue this year. The development company CTP Invest, the dominant owner of logistics parks in the Czech Republic, confirms this and plans to restrict its development plans for this year.

The Rovinka village with 1270 inhabitants, situated only 9 kilometres from the Slovakia capital and only 3 kilometres from its administrative borders, can commend for vehement development of village-type housing with comfort of services of a city like one of several Bratislava suburban districts. It offers maximal utilization of leisure time by its location – vicinity of Bratislava dike, enables skating, biking or only walking in nature almost all over the year, and nearby Štrkovec lakes offers active, by nothing disturbed rest time near water far only several hundred meters behind the village cadastre. Rovinka also offers suitable conditions for working life, including relatively fast commutation. Density of transportation presents certain problem currently, but it ought to be solved based on the agreement with other villages – Dunajská Lužná, Miloslavov, Hamuliakovo and Šamorín – by the bypass till year 2012.

The most known and today probably the most popular shopping-entertainment complex in Slovak metropolis is undergoing rejuvenation cure after eight years of success serving. After agreement with the owner its administrator TriGranit Bratislava Management started renovation of internal spaces of Polus City Center on January 12, 2009. Several of its „steady customers“, who did not get there last month this news took by surprise and they ask well: Why? Avenue, boulevards or passages of this centre are still well-preserved, they have something „up“compared with its later born followers (Au Park, Shopping Center Zlaté piesky, Avion Shopping Park) – neither in atmosphere of consume style they do not miss human size given not only by escape rest zones, but by kindly design first of all and whole architecture of the interior. But markedly still enlarging competition stimulated competent people to go into preventive change. Just about it the life is.

We cannot say that today’s real estate market is flooded with optimistic reports, but hopefully it is not the exact opposite. Although many projects are being delayed, others are currently starting. Without an official announcement, yet revealed through the monitoring of environmental impact assessment documents, work on another stage of a gigantic administration complex in Michle, Prague is currently launched; another multipurpose centre with large office capacities is being prepared for Plzeň, and other projects keep cropping up. Even though analysts could on a significant decrease in the total area of finished office buildings, the situation could turn better in the years to come.

A few hundred metres far from the centre of Ostrava and a few steps from Ostrava’s oldest architectural monument – St. Wenceslas’ Church, a huge hole is presently yawning at people passing by. So far, all there is to see are just parts of the foundation slab, but at the beginning of next year, a new five-storied apartment house will stand proudly at the Kostelní Square. The project called Městská brána (City Gate), created by Metrostav Development, is unique in many respects: its location, shape and, last but not least, circumstances.

The problem of enlarging gorge between offer and demand relates not only the office segment, but also slowly also starts to be distinctive in the area of residential assets. Real assets markets are not share ones and in case, that deciding lasts too long time, the project can be endangered. Apparent over plus of new housing offer, which creates waiting tactic of a client currently, forces developers take measures of various types. Spectacular and mainly extraordinary effective factor of marketing communication, by which particular projects and developers try to differentiate from competitors, are more and more steadily pointed out benefits in current weeks. In the effort not to lose other potential clients, firms come with packages of various surprises or allowances, the goal of which is to bait halted.

The real estate sector is still closely watched by economists, since property prices are often used as an indicator of economic development. In addition, real estates are a key business instrument for developers and a guarantee for diverse financial operations for numerous smaller and medium-sized enterprises. The current economic recession and the associated decline of real estate prices therefore cause many problems to many companies, e.g. how to cope with the falling accounting values of their properties used as a security.

Only few things are as widely discussed as workforce today. At first sight, employers seem to be getting rid of their employees at this time, as new reports about layoffs are commonplace in the media. However, in fact it looks like employers in the whole world experience a huge and almost chronic shortage of qualified and responsible workers; at least recent surveys imply this trend.

Pressure of developers to remaining free Bratislava localities and its colonisation by incoming new settlers, is the trend with which original inhabitants balance not very virtuously. Somewhere in subconscious maybe also fear is napping, whether they are able to accept „dagos“ and make shift with them at all and they so as not to disturb their local culture. Impassable, it was looking like that at the beginning at least, disagreement between the supporters of local traditionalism and the developer, who naturally felt its nonrecurring chance in this lucrative locality, namely egested in strongly tell-all cause „Devín Viladomy“. Skanska Reality SK Company, which is moreover realizing other three projects in Bratislava (Multifunctional complex Bajkalská, Residencia Romantika at Karlova Ves and Rača Vineyards), got catch to know what is pride of 885 people living under an ancient castle.

The confidence of companies’ top managements in the future success has rapidly declined in the whole world, crumbling under the pressure of the recession. The leading figures of major corporations expect only a slow and gradual improvement of the whole situation in the course of the coming three years. These are the results of the 12th global survey of opinions of chief executive officers, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). According to this survey, the optimism among corporate managers has fallen to its minimum since 2003. On the global scale, only 21% of all top executives in corporate management believe in the growing profits of their companies in the next 12 months (last year, 50% of them were optimistic), while over a quarter of them are pessimistic about this year’s development.