Many readers may be quite familiar with this month’s staff profile feature candidate who has recently moved over to the INREV side of the industry. This quarter, we were excited to catch up with Iryna Pylypchuk in her capacity as INREV’s new Director of Research and Market Information (RMI). Read more
IQ recently caught up with Nick Westoby, who has been a fund manager at Octopus Real Estate since 2017, about the challenges of managing debt funds in the midst of Covid-19 and how he sees INREV helping to take the debt funds industry to the next level. Read more
It may be too early to predict the new normal for real estate allocations post COVID-19, but the beds sector is on the up. Allocations to residential and its close relations were already growing before the virus hit, and anecdotal evidence suggests that interest in the sector has accelerated further since then. Read more
As COVID-19 has come to restrict face-to-face meetings and international travel, this is having massive implications for how we all do business. Sylvia Slaughter, Senior Director – Fund Management at investment manager GLP, told IQ how this environment is impacting real estate fund due diligence and what innovations it is spawning could mean in the longer term. Read more
The Performance Measurement Committee (PMC) has had a busy few years working with INREV on the development of several new indices, most notable being the INREV Asset Level Index and the European ODCE Fund Index. Read more
In recent years, investors and fund managers have increasingly focused on how tax structuring of investment vehicles fits within their social and corporate responsibilities. Many have adopted internal codes of tax conduct to guide how they make choices in this area. Read more
As the non-listed real estate industry becomes increasingly global and with international capital flows growing exponentially over the last decade, INREV aims to reflect these realities as far as possible. Read more
ESG issues have been high on the real estate agenda for number of years now, recognising that it has a big role to play in a number of areas such as energy transition and social wellbeing. Acknowledging that real estate can have a positive impact on the world, attention has recently turned to the potential of impact investing for real estate, even if the concept has not always been well understood. Read more
The first phase of responding to the Covid-19 crisis was understandably focused on crafting health and safety measures, while cushioning the European economy as much as possible from the ensuing financial and economic impacts of the virus. In Brussels, the European Parliament and European Commission offices were closed and workers sent home to work, much like the rest of Europe. Read more
On the back of timely new research from INREV, IQ takes a look at the opportunities and challenges for investors and investment managers considering whether, and how, to get involved in operational real estate. Read more
