The news portal’s selection is a confirmation of the broad-based human capital resource and the efficiency it employs in its operations in delivery news to wide range of its online readership globally.
The two-day Property Summit, an assembly of business chieftains from the West Africa’s corporate sector and the sub-region’s real estate sector aims to highlight industry’s strength, current trends and dynamics in the region, and how they can be harnessed whilst circumventing or reducing the effects of challenges facing the region’s real estate industry.
The West Africa Property Investment (WAPI) Summit which is the first of its kind in the sub-region is also focused on serving as a link between industry players in the sub-region and international investors and developers.
The Summit which is one of the first programs to be held at the plush newly constructed Kempinski Hotel in Accra, has arrayed of distinguished speakers that have extensive knowledge of the West African real estate business and capabilities of championing funding towards the sector’s growth.
Some of the keynote speakers include: Bolaji Edu, CEO, Broll Nigeria; Adeniyi Adeleye, Head of Real Estate Finance West Africa, Stanbic IBTC; Layi Gobir, CEO, Smartmark Ltd; and Nicholas Langford, Country Manager Rendeavour.
The rest are: Kojo Addo Kufuor, Chief Financial Officer, Ghana Home Loans; Chinwe Ajene, Head of West Africa, Jones Lang LaSalle; Lanre Fatimilehin, COO, Africa Real Estate Investment and Asset Management; and Xander Ninjens, Head of Hotels and Hospitality Group (SSA), Jones Lang LaSalle.
Some of the topics participants discussed include: West Africa’s Hotel growth momentum; Uncovering Hiden Real Estate Investment Opportunities in Francophone West Africa; Investing in the West African Consumer; Maneuvering around currency volatility and Insights on Financing a Commercial Real Estate Project just to mention a few.
Among the key sponsors of the Summit include Broll as platinum sponsors with JHI and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) as silver sponsors.
Other sponsors include Latitude Five, Stanbic Bank, ATT Africa, West Hills Mall, Alliance Media, Lamudi, Wonder World Estates and Rendeavour.
The rest of the sponsors are Pison Housing Company, Kings Realty, Petronia, Kempinski Hotel, Dream Realty, The Octagon, and Mobus.
Commenting on the media partnership deal for the Summit, the Managing Editor for NewsGhana.com.gh , Roger A. Agana explained that the company welcomed the partnership deal with these global corporate bodies because of its potential to help bridge the housing deficit in Ghana and boost infrastructure in the sub-region as a whole.
“As a media house that has extensively covered the sub-region, we are concerned about the yawning gap in the housing deficit in Ghana which is estimated to be around 1.7 million and the lack of the financial strength by the government to tackle it alone.
“Therefore when this partnership deal came along to bring some attention to the property sector, it was a welcoming news to the company, he said.
Source: NewsGhana.com.gh
