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ERES, Milan 2010 - Forecasting and Redefining workplaces

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Bob gave two papers at the conference, chaired a session on Corporate Real Estate and commentated on a Rugby 7's tournament arranged for the edification of the delegates introducing a crowd from all over the world to the "Up and Under" and "a game of two halves".

ERES 2010 had around 450 delegates from all over the world and saw some 300 papers presented over the course of three days. This makes it the largest real estate conference in the world by some margin.

The first paper Bob presented, co-authored with Dr Qiulin Ke of Nottingham Trent University, was about redefining workplaces as collections of workspaces and building an appraisal model on that basis. Read the slides...

The second paper, entitled "Making forecasts more holistic", was co-authored with Dr Sotiris Tsolacos of PPR and addresses the problem of identifying market, rather than asset specific, risk and building a model that can overlay specific views of risk on existing forecasts to explore different scenarios. Both papers will be published in Journals in due course once they have been through the peer review process but the slides are available here. Read the slides....

Federation of Corporate Real Estate Advisers Seminar - 12.05.2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

A Maturity Matrix Can Measure "CRE Competence" Of An Organisation - How High Do You Score?

The FCRE's morning seminar on this topic was at the offices of Allen & Overy in the City. Andrew's presentation compared various approaches to measuring CRE performance and suggested some basic principles and where to start. Andrew's slides are available here or at the FCRE website here.

RICS Conference 2010 - Social media paper

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

RICS Wales National Property Conference, 29th April 2010
RICS South West Property Conference, 9th June 2010

Andrew spoke about Social Media at these two RICS conferences - the focus was on understanding the benefits and risks; and where to start managing exposure within these media. For a copy of the slides click here...

Launch of Property IT Benchmark Survey 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

We would like to invite participants to our fifth IT benchmarking survey for the property industry. Respondents to this short survey include many of the leading property services firms, fund managers and property companies. Click here for more details.

Berlin Meeting of immoebs - 21st April 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Jenny and Rudi helped Christian Schulz-Wulkow, manager of immoebs Berlin/Brandenburg events and workgroups, to organise the most recent networking event. Read more and see the event photos...

Vesteda launches 350 million euro CMBS

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Hans Gerritsen, partner in Remit Consulting in the Netherlands advised Vesteda on the launch of their recent CMBS issuance. Here is a link to the press release.

MIPIM News Survey 2010 Report

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Following up our joint survey with The Estates Gazette in 2009, we worked with the EG again this year to find out what the property industry relies on to get its news.

The survey was posted online for 3 days at the end of the MIPIM conference in Cannes. The key findings are that despite property professionals being a traditional lot - they still read their paper journals at the weekend, for example - nearly all types of media are being read. Portals are very popular and Twitter has more than doubled its following since last year. Against this, video has few fans despite excellent content being available.

You can read a summary of the results here.

If you would like a copy of the full report, please contact us.

MIPIM News Survey 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Following up our joint survey with The Estates Gazette in 2009, we worked with the EG again this year to find out what the property industry relies on to get its news.

The survey was posted online for 3 days at the end of the MIPIM conference in Cannes. The key findings are that despite property professionals being a traditional lot - they still read their paper journals at the weekend, for example - nearly all types of media are being read. Portals are very popular and twitter has more than doubled its following since last year. Against this, video has few fans despite excellent content being available.

You can read a summary of the results here.

This is how the Estates Gazette reported the findings.

If you would like a copy of the full report, please contact us.

Lastly, but by no means least, there is a German language summary of the results on our German website here...

Jenny wins the LaSalle Investment Management prize

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Our colleague Jenniffer Solomon, German Partner of Remit Consulting in Berlin, has won this year's LaSalle Investment Management Prize for the best dissertation in the MSc in Property Investment course of the University of Reading. We are very proud of her achievement - congratulations!

In her thesis she looked at "The future of the CMBS market in Europe - can regulation be the lifesaver?", evaluating the structured feedback of more than 130 market participants across Europe, which allowed her to draw some interesting conclusions. A summary of her survey can be found here...

tREnds 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Through adversity comes innovation - that is the theory. But, in 2009 we found little innovation in the property industry... except, that is, within property companies. The industry as a whole has been concentrating on releasing capital and reducing overheads but, in many parts of the property investment business, standing out is still not a great career move.

Here is our team's yearly round-up of what we think will happen during the next 12 months. Read more...

The future of the CMBS market in Europe

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Much has been written and speculated about the role of structured finance instruments and especially mortgage backed securities, including CMBS, in the current financial crisis.

But what really went wrong and how should it be addressed to prevent a repetition in future? Jenniffer Solomon recently surveyed 136 respondents drawn from issuers, investors and service providers supporting the CMBS "industry" and her report provides some unique insights into the market view of the crisis.

The results together with her analysis are in a presentation here...

In addition, the German paper Immobilienzeitung published an article about the survey on November 19 2009. The article can be found here but you'll need to pay to download it.

IT benchmark survey summary

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

This year we undertook our 4th survey of property firms and investors, this year, to see whether IT efficiency and spending has improved in the current economic climate.

There is good news - costs have come down - but also bad news: costs have not come down enough! We also found clues to making IT support more efficient and effective. Read our summary report here.

If you did not have a chance to complete the questionnaire the first time round and would like a full copy of the results together with a comparison of your own figures against your peers, contact us...

Remit IT benchmark survey 2009

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

We have launched our 4th Property IT Benchmark survey to find out how the property industry is changing its use of IT. The survey looks at costs, outsourced services and types of application in use.

It is only 8 questions long and takes a few minutes to complete - if you are responsible for IT in a property services firm, a property company or in a fund, contact us to ask to take part. We will send you a short report showing your own details against the averages as a thank you for participating.

To read more about it read this article from Property Week.

IT for Property People - free chapters and discounts

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Andrew wrote a book about how IT has very little to do with technology and lots to do with understanding how your property business works.

EGBooks, who publish it has allowed us to give you three chapters to download and read at your convenience.

Not only that, if you want to buy a copy, when you download it you will get a code which gives you a discount code for 10% off.

Find out more...

MIPIM News survey

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

MIPIM, the conference held in Cannes, France, each year is attended by the great and the good of the real estate world. This year we were besieged by emails asking us to subscribe to online news and gossip from the conference.

With the Estates Gazette, we therefore put a short survey on our website and more than 100 people responded.

Read the report...

Short survey on MIPIM news coverage

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

As the delegates return to their desks to follow up the contacts they made at MIPIM, those of us who stayed behind seem to have learnt nearly as much as those who attended. We have been swamped by news from MIPIM over the last few days - the "traditional" press has been augmented by emailed updates, web portals, blogs and Twitter.

Whether or not you were at MIPIM, we would like to know how you have received (or plan to receive) the news, rumours and gossip this week and we would be grateful if you would fill out the 4 questions from the links below. In return we'll send you an analysis of the results next week.

If you are in the UK: Click here - UK
If you are in The Netherlands: Click here - NL
If you are in Germany: Click here - DE
Rest of World: Click here - RoW

We hope to find out how the response compares with l ast year, some idea of the value of the new forms of media, and what the property world thinks of all this extra information. A summary will be published by the Estates Gazette.

if you would like to see the results of last year's survey click here.

Thank you for completing the survey and if you have any queries let us know.

Public Sector Winter Newsletter

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Our latest public sector newsletter leads with Nick Booth's article on use of third sector (not for profit) organizations to deliver public sector services. This area is generating quite a bit of interest as it ticks a number of boxes for local authorities in particular.

Please contact us if you would like to receive this or future public sector newsletters.

Remit Winter Newsletter

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Our winter newsletter has been published and covers the all these many and varied topics:

The New Year - a different climate

Papers and articles
Remit tREnds 2009 - What the smart money is watching
IT Costs in real estate firms
Fair value - When should you buy again?
Cut costs, not corners - Lexis Nexis

Events & Presentations
Realcomm
MIPIM
ACES
Last October's Expo-Real
Raindrop Seminar

Remit News
Guide dogs
Christmas wish-list feedback
Snaps from Dusseldorf

Snow Business Survey

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Monday 2nd February saw significant snowfall in the South East of England and many people worked from home. We thought it would be interesting to know if working remotely is as effective as being in the office.

We therefore put a short survey on our website and more than 100 people responded. The Estates Gazette ran this article about the survey on the EGi a few days later.

We have now published the findings of the survey.

The key message is that there is nothing to stop remote working from a technical point of view - we still need to manage people's attitudes to working out of the office.

Click here to download a copy (PDF 2Mb).

Remit Report reveals agency overspend on IT

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:14 GMT

Estates Gazette/EGi announced our recent study of IT costs in London Property advisers.

This is the third in our yearly review of costs and IT structure in property firms and we have found that the firms with the most effective IT support are beginning to create quite a large gap from those which are less efficient. The average firm in our study could save over £1milion pa if they managed to reduce their cost to that of the best.

Read the article here or contact us if you would like to compare your own costs with the sample.