These days when liquidity is scarce in the Financial Institutions of Western world and Real Estate financing from commercial and investment banks seems to be an impossible mission just available for the happy few, very few, a new, and most of the times forgotten or unknown source of financing is out there waiting for thirsty Real Estate companies: the “Multilateral Development Banks” (MDB) to develop a variety of projects: From Residential, to Shopping Centres, Retail, Offices, Hotels & Tourism.: Eureka!
What exactly are the MDBs? Who can apply to them? What is the key difference between a Regional and a Global one? Do the investment criteria change among them? How to work with them? What is the project approval cycle? How long that takes? Do they request different or additional information from the standard commercial/investment banks? Do they finance jointly with commercial/investment banks acting in your countries of operation? What is the best way of approaching them? What market niches, within the real estate sector, are more interesting for each one of them: Residential, Shopping Centres, Retail, Offices, Hotels & Spas, Golf Courses, etc.? Do they have any special country within their countries of operation that they are more ready to approve investment in those sectors? Which are the environmental criteria and conditions they require for each project? Who carries out that study: The Institution or the inventor?
Without a doubt, one more session where developers can get the so-much-wanted financing they so badly need, specially those willing to go international. Highly recommended.
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