YEREVAN, JUNE 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The first step aimed at development of real estate market in Armenia should be presence of qualified specialists, which is possible in case of creating the respective faculties or departments at universities. Expressing such opinion in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent, Erik Mesropian, Chairman of Real Estate Scientific-Information Center, chief expert of Urban Institute international program's real estate market, said that Real Estate Management and Expertise faculty has been functioning at the Financial Academy since 2004 on the initiative of Accern corporation. In E. Mesropian's words, this contributes to training of qualified specialists at the very universities and not at firms. In his words, before this, the gap was filled by retraining courses held at Accern. Teaching of Real Estate Economics subject has started at Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University since 2006, which also contributes to rise of level of specialization. However, in E. Mesropian's words, there is still a lot to do in the issue of training of serious specialists in this quickly developing sphere.

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