Friday, October 28, 2011

CREDAI features a paper by realism.IN


The Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) recently featured a white paper by realism.IN that argues why real estate should be treated as an independent academic discipline in India. In spite of a very large real estate market, there is hardly any academic support available to real estate professionals in India. The paper lays out ten points positing why the industry must whole-heartedly support organizations that are working towards academic/research improvements.
At realism.IN, our foremost mission is to "...provide the highest quality research & development products in the areas of real estate development, finance, management, positioning and investment....". Our model can not dwell on the same principles that several other businesses do. Product development (eLearning modules and research papers) at realism.IN is an intellectually challenging, intense and a continuously self-enriching task. Therefore, in our mission to elevate the academic standards of the Indian realty sector, realism.IN needs to run in an entrepreneurial model so that we can attract the best researchers, professionals and academics to help us serve the industry. We have already achieved several milestones in the development process and not too long from now, the Indian Realty sector will be empowered with high-quality educational and research materials which are specially developed for the Indian realty sector, in all its uniqueness.

Download the CREDAI version of the white paper by clicking here. (User registration required)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Real Estate in 'Wrappers'

"...REITs are real estate that happens to perform like stock. The underlying asset is the same, it's just that the wrapper is different. And depending on which wrapper you put around real estate the real estate will perform differently..."

-Russell Platt (Morgan Stanley Asset Management)

From 'On the Hybrid Nature of REITs'; Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, Sept 2011