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
For all the technological advances seen in many parts of the real estate business, transactions – both for assets and for funds – are still a costly and time-consuming process. One solution to this problem could be creating automated transaction systems, where human involvement is replaced by digital ledger-based technology (DLT). Smart contracts are at the heart of these systems. Read more
Initiated in 2018 as a joint endeavour between INREV and ANREV, the members of both associations are now starting to see big improvements to the back and front ends of their database operations. These benefits are most apparent when members come to enter data for the INREV/ANREV indices or extract statistics and analyses for their own use. Read more
This edition of the IQ is published just a couple of weeks after the INREV Young Professionals Seminar where we were joined by 150 of tomorrow’s leaders to look at the latest trends and hot topics under the theme of ‘Open for business: preparing for a post COVID world’ and you can read some of the key highlights in this edition. Read more
For all the advances in the marketplace over recent years, investment into private commercial real estate – both vehicles and individual assets – is still a cumbersome process. Real estate transactions involve a number of different stages and multiple intermediaries, such as lawyers and agents, who help reduce risk for all participants but add time and cost. Read more
In this edition of the IQ we look closer at many of the topics which were highlighted in the programme at the flagship INREV Annual Conference last month. Read more
Property investment has always been data driven, but in the last few years, the volume and variety of data available to support the decisions we make has grown significantly. As the rate of growth increases, we can expect to see more data become available and for decision making to become more informed by data analytics. Read more
Education and Training has always been a main pillar of INREV membership but it has never been easier for members to make use of this service, with increased access and a wider range of offerings from training courses to eLearning to online courses blending the two approaches, and not forgetting the only academically accredited certificate in the non-listed real estate industry, the INREV/Henley Cert Read more
As a private asset-class, non-listed real estate began with a lack of publicly available data – a hindrance that could often deter new investors. So, from its early years, INREV set out to collect members’ data, with the aim of increasing transparency in the sector. Read more
Technology has been a lifeline for the real estate industry through the COVID-19 pandemic. It has allowed most of us to continue working from home, interacting with colleagues and clients via the online meeting services that we have come to know and (mostly) love. Here at INREV, technology has helped keep all our services operating, from indices and research to the more interactive areas of training and events. Read more
