Secondary Markets and Liquidity Committee
In the immediate aftermath of the UK Brexit vote, open end UK real estate funds faced a number of challenges. Read more
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The future is bright
The ninth annual INREV Young Professionals Seminar – held over two days in June – brought the future to life by looking beyond the everyday real estate landscape to the technological changes that will shape how we all live and work in the years ahead. Read more
Stephen Ryan
Stephen explains how members’ input is integral to research. Stephen joined INREV as Research Manager in October 2015 from investment consultants Mercer, where he worked for the previous ten years. He commutes to Amsterdam weekly from Dublin, but cycles to the office each day like a true Dutchman. Read more
Striding towards global fee and expense metrics
INREV, ANREV, NCREIF and PREA have been collaborating since 2015 on the challenge of developing a set of global fee and expense metrics. We reached a key milestone along this road in May, with the publication of a global terminology and set of definitions, bridging the gaps between different regional standards. Read more
Catherine Martougin
Making regulation work for real estate Catherine Martougin accentuates the positive IQ caught up with Catherine Martougin, Partner at Baker & McKenzie in Luxembourg, to discuss regulation and how initiatives like the introduction of RAIFs, the reserved alternative investment funds, may help cope with time constraints created by regulations. Read more
A View on Brexit
The outcome of the June 23 Brexit referendum sent seismic shockwaves through European policy making institutions. Initially, there seems to have been some reflection regarding whether too much regulation emanating from Brussels, possibly introduced too quickly, might have contributed to UK voter dissatisfaction with European integration. Read more
Welcome
Waking on the morning of 24 June, I was surprised – not entirely pleasantly – to learn that the UK had voted to leave the European Union. The decision in favour of Brexit brought an end to one period of uncertainty but ushered in a new one. Read more
INREV Global Investor Real Estate Performance Index
Patrick Kanters, APG unveils initial results of the Global Investor Real Estate Performance Index and calls for investors to support this new initiative, which will allow them to compare performance across different investment routes for the first time. Read more
Real estate in the jobless future
The steam engine was central to the industrial revolution; when it became cheap enough, the engine was used for mass production and economical and efficient transportation, and with the arrival of the railway, the number of horses dropped as much as twenty-fold in some countries. Technology is the key driver of economic growth, but also a disruptive factor – as it was for millions of horses. Read more
Making governance count
INREV’s new Corporate Governance Assessment is set to bring greater transparency to this key aspect of every fund. Read more