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When my husband started a small real estate consulting firm in 1978
( Alberto has been an advisor since then, and specializes in finance),
I began to collaborate with him and, since I knew nothing about real
estate, I spent many years not only working but also studying hard.
I studied everything: first of all law, then marketing, economics,
and many other things.
Meanwhile I also wrote.
Little by little, writing became my main occupation. Eventually
almost my only one.
I’ve always cultivated a life of association. I’ve especially been
involved with FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation. From
1984 to 1985, I was the international president of "Group 35", the
association’s chapter for young professionals. I then became active
in AICI, the Italian Association of Real Estate Consultants and
Managers (www.aici-italia.it). Since the founding of AICI in 1987,
I’ve been in charge of the association’s internal and external
communications. In 1998 I joined ERES, the European Real Estate
Society (www.eres.org), a pan European network of real estate
economists. In 2001 I became a member of the association’s board of
directors, and now I’m the President, until june 2006. I was the
organizer of the 11th ERES Annual Conference, which took place for
the first time in Italy, in Milan, in June 2004. Over 400 delegates
from 40 countries attended the event.
I am always willing to participate in training, at times even in the
academic world; and in organizing conferences, seminars etc. Another
activity of mine is strategic communication consulting, always
connected with real estate.
I travel on business a lot, including abroad.
My few holidays, by contrast, are today very domestic. In my younger
days, however, I went on holiday often and I’ve been in many places,
including faraway ones. That’s how I took up the movie camera (super
8) as a hobby. I cut the movies myself with a Moviola. I also
enjoyed painting. Nowadays, in my extremely rare free time, I read
and do a bit of gardening. Music is always there, whether at home or
in my office.
I don’t have any children, but I do have a small tribe of cats. As
Camilla Cederna ( a famous Italian writer and journalist ) said, my
religion is "Cat-olic".
Paola G. Lunghini,
property journalist
Editor in Chief of "Economia Immobiliare"
via Nerino 5, 20123 Milano
tel 02/72529611
fax 02/86452597
email paola.lunghini@mclink.it
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