Qui va piano va sano

A few weeks ago, following our annual press conference, we got this interesting question from a real estate equity sales desk: “I have one particular question on current disposal talks. If pricing is not very much of an issue and the buyers are mostly equity buyers and have little constraints regarding the debt financing, what is currently holding up the process?”

Apples and bananas

For real estate listed companies like for other industries, March was the month of FY08 earning season and we did publish our numbers on the 31st of March (a replay of the webcast of alstria result presentation can be found here).

Kill the messenger

Kill the messenger. This is basicly what i thought when i read the news about relaxing fair value accounting rules by FASB in the US. Not looking at the problem is unlikely to make it goes away. And unlikely to help solving it too.