Sentence examples for property fair from inspiring English sources

"We've come here to denounce what's going on inside that conference hall," said Jake Freeland, of London's Radical Housing Network, pointing at the gleaming concrete fortress of the Palais des Festivals, where the world's largest property fair, MIPIM, was underway.

When Digs wrote to the council asking it to boycott the international property fair in Cannes last year, where councils were accussed of trying to sell of British cities to investors, it listened.

Speaking at the controversial Mipim property fair in London earlier this month, Reynolds told delegates that under a Labour government councils that fail to meet housing needs will face some "stick".

Worries about a downturn coincided with Dubai's annual property fair, Cityscape, which filled the cavernous World Trade Centre with eager salesmen, glittering displays of extraordinary buildings and promises of secure investments.

From a pair of £1,600 Olympic opening ceremony tickets to a £1,250 trip to the lavish Mipim property fair in Cannes, these sponsored outings were reported to have joined a lengthy list from the previous year of Proms tickets and dinners at the Ivy, paid for by at least 10 other companies.

Sensing that mixed neighbourhoods were fast disappearing and even well-to-do-Muslims were finding it a problem to buy property, Ahmedabad-based entrepreneur Mohammed Ali Husain began a property fair connecting Muslim builders with buyers.

At big property fairs staged in the glitzy emirate in early 2008, people would queue to buy apartments and villas "off plan" – from developers' architectural drawings – long before construction work started.

Rich Hong Kong investors have been ploughing money into British bricks and mortar for decades, snapping up off-plan apartments at weekly property fairs that can then be rented, flipped, held as investments or used as second homes.

The bill's title, "State property: Orange County Fair: inventory; leases; sale and leaseback" gave little hint of its import.

The principle allows governments to seize property, with fair compensation to owners, when a case can be made that such seizure serves the public interest.

This anecdote illustrates, in microcosm, the forces and ideology represented by Mipim UK, the property developers' fair that is taking place in London from 15 to 17 October.