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The crisis in real estate was/is a crisis of transparency

September 16, 2010

Analysis of:"Do you know how good your property data is?" | www.creopoint.com

There is a need for greater transparency in real estate, and now is the the best moment ever to launch a wide discussion of the issues. The crisis in property markets should be interpreted as a crisis of transparency. The marketplace is served by a kind of global (and local) cottage industry of innumerable information suppliers (IPD, CoSTAR, INREV, EGi, Bloomberg, Moody's, etc., etc., etc.), which together do not sum to form an efficient infrastructure for the marketplace.

The Three T's: Transparency, Transparency and Transparency

December 8, 2008

Analysis of:Banks to defy Government and raise mortgages rates | www.timesonline.co.uk

Until a few months ago, real estate benefited from the trusting and often naively unquestioning acquiescence of investors. When property and financial markets start moving again, the strategic long-term investors will be much more demanding in what they require from their interlocutors and the marketplace infrastructure itself. Transparency will be a prerequisite. Trust and confidence must follow before they will even consider real estate as a competitive investment asset. Value in future transactions will more rarely be a function of speculative anticipation of rapid market growth, but of the proper evaluation of the market risk inherent in the net revenue stream and of the reliability of the supporting data itself.

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