Member Profile: Abigail Dean
With sustainability and climate resilience climbing ever higher on the real estate investor’s agenda, IQ magazine was delighted to have the chance to speak to the chair of INREV’s ESG Committee, Abigail Dean. Read more
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Smart contracts for real estate investment
For all the technological advances seen in many parts of the real estate business, transactions – both for assets and for funds – are still a costly and time-consuming process. One solution to this problem could be creating automated transaction systems, where human involvement is replaced by digital ledger-based technology (DLT). Smart contracts are at the heart of these systems. Read more
Letter from Brussels
Over most of the past two years, the Public Affairs and Tax Committees and the Brussels-based Public Affairs team have been kept busy with a stream, or sometimes more accurately a torrent, of regulatory and tax consultations. These consultations are a required step in the process of developing new regulations and tax measures and are designed to get public input into policy proposals before they’re adopted in final form. Read more
Committee Focus
Throughout the pandemic, INREV’s Public Affairs Committee continued to work to promote the interests of the non-listed real estate industry with regulators in London and Brussels and to share their insights with members. Read more
ESG and Climate Regulations
ESG is at the top of major issues transforming the real estate investment industry in Europe. Read more
INREV Young Professionals Seminar 2021
The three-hour seminar around the theme, ‘Open for Business: preparing for a post-COVID world’, took place on 1 July 2021, with many interesting areas covered and moderated by Catriona Allen from LaSalle Global Partner Solutions. Read more
ESG – From Boardroom to Action
Guy Grainger, Global head of Sustainability Services, JLL shared his thoughts recently at the INREV Annual Conference, on ESG and what’s currently happening in the market, how to turn strategy into execution, and presented a scenario of our industry five years into the future. Read more
Digitisation and tokenisation technologies could ease vehicle access
For all the advances in the marketplace over recent years, investment into private commercial real estate – both vehicles and individual assets – is still a cumbersome process. Real estate transactions involve a number of different stages and multiple intermediaries, such as lawyers and agents, who help reduce risk for all participants but add time and cost. Read more
The Evolution of the INREV Guidelines
Non-listed is still relatively young, joining the real estate landscape alongside direct and listed just over 20 years ago. Read more
Member Profile: Keith O'Donnell
IQ spoke recently to Keith O’Donnell about his work as a Luxembourg-based tax adviser and the recent achievements of the INREV Tax Committee, which he has chaired over the past four years. 15 years ago, he founded the tax advisory firm ATOZ in Luxembourg, where he is now Managing Partner and was one of the founders of Tax and, the leading international tax network. Read more