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Commercial Real Estate Valuation in the Covid-19 Era
Prashant Das | April 30, 2020
By Prashant Das & Remy Rein Glossary REIT: Real Estate Investment Trust, a company which owns and operates real estate assets and enjoys a special tax treatment. REOC: Real Estate Operating Company which did not opt for the REIT status. NCREIF: National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. A consortium of commercial property owners which pool their data for creating real estate performance indices and benchmarks. NPI.Lev: NCREIF Property Index after accounting for payout to lenders. When Covid-19 struck, the markets reacted. Since the beginning of 2020, REIT returns have nosedived: -60% in ret...
Facilities Management in Offices and Hotels: Same, Same but Different
Remy Rein | May 31, 2018
By Remy Rein The management of office facilities has been undergoing a revolution of sorts, thanks to disruptors such as the private social network Nextdoor and co-working spaces WeWork and Workspace2go, as well as a slew of new practices. Nowadays office space is being optimized in terms of square meters and usage per hour. According to a report on Coworking by Arthur Loyd in July, the number of coworking spaces was expected to grow eightfold worldwide to some 14,000 in 2017 from 1,780 in 2015. It added that, in Paris alone, coworking floorspace was expected to increase by 167 percent to an estimated 155,200 square meters in 2017 from ...
The Sharing Economy: Opportunities for Hoteliers
Remy Rein | April 6, 2017
By Remy Rein Attend a hotel conference these days and the issue of the sharing economy is likely to raise its head, in particular competition from short-term rental services via the internet. Airbnb is a classic example of the sharing economy, as the online business brings together homeowners and renters. It's clear the sharing economy is not going to disappear, so hoteliers should be looking to see how they can join in. The question is: how? Let's look at some of the opportunities out there. According to PwC research, revenue from peer-to-peer accommodation services is forecast to post compound annual growth of 31 per cent between 2013...
The Sharing Economy: Opportunities for Hoteliers
Remy Rein | February 27, 2017
By Remy Rein Attend a hotel conference these days and the issue of the sharing economy is likely to raise its head, in particular competition from short-term rental services via the internet. Airbnb is a classic example of the sharing economy, as the online business brings together homeowners and renters. It's clear the sharing economy is not going to disappear, so hoteliers should be looking to see how they can join in. The question is: how? Let's look at some of the opportunities out there. According to PwC research, revenue from peer-to-peer accommodation services is forecast to post compound annual growth of 31 per cent betw...
