MIPIM DISPATCH THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA?

摘要

"I do not in any way want to deter international investment," said Boris Johnson this week, as he walked the fine line between appeasing an electorate worried about overseas buyers sending London house prices soaring, and ensuring London's door remains open to the global super-rich, writes Vern Pitt in Cannes. Perhaps he needn't worry. If footfall on stands across the Mipim conference is any indicator of investment interest, then London was holding a commanding lead. The stands of the much-vaunted growth markets of Russia and Brazil were empty by comparison, leaving the statuesque ladies staffing them with little to do.