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- Profiles of each country's gas infrastructure including transit and
distribution pipelines and their ownership, storage capacities and full
colour maps of gas grids.
- Gas supply data in billion cubic metres including production, pipeline
imports and exports by country and LNG imports.
- An understanding of European regulatory conditions including EC
directives and their translation local legislation and consequent
market reforms and re-structure.
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This fifth edition of International Real Estate Finance features articles
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Asia, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, the UK and US. The important number of applications and their
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- Gas market trends from 1960 to 2003 detailing each countries gas
production and demand by sector.
430 innovative products from 29 countries competed for this year's
European IST Prize . The twenty IST Prize winners exhibited their products at
the 2004 IST Event in The Hague last November , received EUR 5,000 each
and are nominated for the three Grand Prizes.
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- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Salans
- Saxinger Chalupsky Weber + Partners
- The International Bar Association
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- Wikborg, Rein + Co.com/reports/c15861

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The yearbook contains a series
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legal perspectives, advances in e-registration for real estate issues,
property funds and listed real estate. Country profiles also feature an overview of supply
and demand, an examination of key governmental, legal and political influences
on the sector and an analysis of wholesale trading and the pipeline, LNG and
storage infrastructure, now and in the future.

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Topics covered include:

- Listed real estate - what are the benefits?
- Property Lawyers in Cyberspace? Electronic aids to Expedition of Deals
- INREV gets into gear
- Recent legal developments in Pan European real estate finance
- A coming of age? Maturity, tax competition and the growth of indirect
real estate vehicles in Europe
- European property funds - what are the options?
- France enacts public private partnership legislation
- Transfer of operational land and buildings to subsidiaries
- Corporate strategies to place investment capital in Germany
- Italian real estate: new trends, opportunities and the role of financial
institutions
- Polish real estate lawyers living through interesting times
- The Austrian Real Estate Investment Fund Act 2003
- Recent developments in the Swedish real property market
- Norway- Looking for new alternatives
- Finnish real estate market - inviting opportunity for investors
- Recent trends in US real estate capital flows - behavioural finance +
real estate investors
- Housing finance in Asia

For more information visit
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changing and opening up to liberalization and new market entrants; this report
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- Key gas demand data in billion cubic metres divided by consumer into
residential, non- residential and power generation.

Key questions answered in this report:

- How has gas production and consumption changed over time and what is
forecast for the future?
- Where does each country source it's imported gas from and how much is
imported?
- Who are the key transmitters and distributors of gas?
- When will each country's energy markets become open to competition?

Countries profiled in the report include:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom

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