Sadly this will be the last time that I welcome you to the IQ magazine. I am now on gardening leave, although I’m glad to say that from October I will still be able to keep in touch with many of you, at that point on behalf of an INREV member firm rather than as part of the management. Read more
IQ spoke to Edgar Orlovskis recently about his role as Analyst in the Research and Analytics team, and his enthusiasm for performance indices. Read more
Early April marked INREV’s thirteenth Annual Conference. In Berlin for the second time, the event attracted a significant turnout with 435 delegates. It bore all the hallmarks of the quality fixture for which the Annual Conference has developed a strong reputation over the years. Read more
Julie de Mooij, who joined INREV seven months ago, spoke to IQ recently about her role as Office Manager in Amsterdam and her focus on membership administration. For an organisation like INREV, it’s critical that all membership information is kept up to date and in good order, so members can make the most of all the benefits that it provides. Read more
The appetite of Korean investors for real estate in general and non-listed vehicles in particular shows no signs of waning, even if global political and economic trends look increasingly uncertain. Read more
IQ caught up with Jaap van der Bijl, Altera and Remco Rothkrantz, Kempen to find out what the INREV Due Diligence Committee is up to, what its plans are for 2017, and what the initials GEO stand for. Read more
Gone are the days when we could take a stable political environment for granted – potential policy changes are now a part of every real estate investment discussion we have with our colleagues and our clients. Read more
Casper van Grieken, Senior Director at CBRE EMEA Capital Advisors and Stefan Sielias, Senior Consultant, told IQ why they find the INREV Assessment tool so useful and shared their thoughts on how the tool could help others. Read more
The political uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the recent US presidential election has created short-term volatility in financial and currency markets, driving investors to look for more stable investment returns. The case for investing in German real estate has always been strong, but it appears to have particularly benefitted from this trend, with record levels of international capital targeting the market. Read more
Recent years have confirmed the diversification benefits of real estate. At the same time, a desire for international diversification within real estate portfolios has meant cross border capital flows are now the norm. But global strategies have also generated a need for new sources of information, to help measure, understand and manage the performance of globally diversified investment portfolios. Read more
