This year marks the tenth anniversary of the great financial crash. So disastrous for so many, the crash demonstrated the global systematic problems across all asset classes at the time, with the real estate industry being no exception. Read more
This summer saw the 11th edition of INREV’s Annual Young Professionals Conference, held in Budapest between 5 and 6 July. The event was attended by 168 of the European non- listed real estate industry’s next generation, who were clearly hungry to learn and ambitious to succeed in the business. Read more
As the European non-listed real estate sector has expanded over the past 15 years, the demand for greater transparency on vehicle management fees and costs has grown. And with investors taking an increasingly global approach toward holding non-listed vehicles, the desire to compare fees and costs across regions has also escalated. Read more
INREV’s Due Diligence Questionnaire is going through an important overhaul. The DDQ, which specifies the information a manager needs to provide an investor or consultant when deciding if a vehicle proposal matches their investment objectives, has recently been updated to reflect investors’ due diligence processes more closely. Read more
INREV’s website is one of the main ways our members and the wider investment industry learn about key trends in non-listed real estate and INREV’s role in supporting them. It’s essential to refresh the website regularly and improve its look and flow, so we’ve been working over the past year with member focus groups, staff, consultants and vendors to bring it up to date. Read more
Getting on in life – and your career – can often be a question of who you know, but in such a multi-faceted industry as non-listed real estate, arming yourself with knowledge is equally important. Read more
European debt funds really took off in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). A few had existed earlier, but the losses suffered by commercial banks on their real estate loans following the crisis provided a market opportunity for institutional investors. Read more
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
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
According to a range of studies, the real estate industry is trailing a long way behind the leaders of the pack – usually the digital sector, professional services or even financial services – when it comes to attracting top talent. In terms of diversity, the sector does not even make it into the middle ranks, but is situated at or near the bottom when compared to others. Read more
