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Sentiment towards German real estate turns negative

The latest June edition of the INREV’s Market Insights publication confirms the turnaround in investment sentiment that started to come through in March this year, and Germany’s position stands out more negatively than most other geographies. Read more

Viewpoints

Examining investor interest for Europe over the next 6-12 months

Over 2021, INREV reported at least €254 billion of capital was raised for non-listed real estate globally, a new-record high since the beginning of the global Capital Raising Survey in 2015. The majority of capital was raised for North American (€90 billion) and European (€73 billion) strategies, followed by global (€56 billion) and Asia-Pacific strategies (€34 billion) and a small category of other.   Read more

Tax

The right time for a harmonised EU-UK fund vehicle

The tax world as we know it is going through (yet) another life cycle change Read more

Viewpoints

Wisdom, Cooperation and Leadership

Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (2002-2010), enthralled delegates at this year’s INREV Annual Conference. In a blistering keynote address, Mr Balkenende shared his clear-sighted perspective on a range of critical issues, from the conflict in Ukraine to re-establishing geopolitical stability, achieving a sustainable economic recovery, and the importance of creativity and inspiration in political discourse. Read more

Other

INREV Website Redesign

INREV instigated the website redesign in response to members’ feedback, particularly the membership survey undertaken in 2020 and member user testing completed in 2021. A huge thanks to all the twenty members who participated in the card sorting activities and the one-to-one interviews helping us to work out what was intuitive and how and where we could improve the user experience.   Read more

Viewpoints

Inclusion is also a choice

At this year's Young Professionals Conference we will be touching on the very important topic of inclusion with Ernst Dekker, Dekker & Van Velzen. Ernst shares some of his thoughts with IQ before he takes to the stage.  Read more

ESG

All aboard for the ESG data challenge

With ESG centre stage at this year’s Annual Conference, the Research and Performance Measurement Open House Breakout session zeroed in on INREV’s exciting new pilot project aimed at solving the ESG data challenge. IQ was in the room. Delegates listened with rapt attention to Iryna Pylypchuk and Connor van Leeuwen explain how INREV’s Asset Level sustainability KPI data collection project was progressing.  Read more

ESG

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

ESG

Incorporating ESG into property valuations

In April, decision makers and top players across the non-listed real estate industry gathered in Athens to attend the INREV Annual Conference. After two years of holding our flagship event virtually, it was wonderful to see everyone in person, providing the opportunity to catch up with friends, colleagues, and peers.  Read more

Sector focus

An age-old solution to a modern-day problem

Given its sizeable contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, the real estate industry is grappling with  how it can balance meeting the need for additional space as economies and societies grow with mitigating the climate crisis. Our growing economies need new and refurbished buildings but construction activity alone accounts for 11% of annual global carbon emissions according to the World Economic Forum.1   Read more