The second round of the Libyan Real Estate Development Forum, held in Tunis, started today .

Speakers will include the Ministers of Finance and Planning, the head of the Housing and Infrastructure Board (HIB), the Economic and Social Development Fund (ESDF), The Organization for the Development of Administrative Centres (ODAC), the Mayors of Tripoli and Benghazi, the Land Registry, Jumhouria and the Real Estate Savings and Development banks and leaders in the private sector.

The topics of discussion will include urban planning and its role in development, the role of Libyan bank financing in the sector, as well as the activation of the suspended land registry and the reality of PPP in Libya.

As far as the first forum is concerned, it discussed ways for the private sector to cooperate with the state sector in completing the implementation of the country’s stalled 550,000 housing-unit projects contracted to foreign companies.