[wpvideo ti1ivlb9]I recently attended an international evening at the Fairmont. It was a joint event which included the Swiss Chamber of Commerce along with those chambers representing Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. The event brought together professionals from all disciplines interested in San Francisco as an international destination for business. I was told they host joint events occasionally to increase awareness of efforts from different countries focusing on San Francisco.

Wow. It’s an ever-expanding conciousness on my part  in terms of all the global networking …physically and over the net that is constantly going on. I was pleasantly surprised to find these groups in existence here and it underscored for me the importance of San Francisco as an international business center especially when I met a young woman from the Bavarian Trade Office located here . Who knew. I can’t wait to see what other international endeavors there are for me to uncover in my own backyard.

In the end, all roads lead to Rome as the saying goes. Or, to San Francisco in this case. Our real estate, homes and investments, will benefit from all this global attention. In fact, I was told a couple of years ago that the wealthy families of San Francisco buy choice homes in Pacific Heights and just hold them for their children because in their view real estate is cheap here when compared to other international cities. If this is still their strategy then their buys are better today than they were two years ago.