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agenda
The
global collapse in real estate that began with the US sub-prime crisis has
spread from America to Europe and from residential to commercial property.
This process, widely described as the greatest financial crisis since the
1930s, has devastated banking capital and credit availability, as well as
real estate prices. It has also provoked widespread fears of recession in
America, possibly spreading to Europe and the rest of the world.
But
Anatole Kaletsky sees evidence that the US housing market began to
stabilise in the spring and early summer, that credit losses may be less
extreme than implied by market prices and that the US economic cycle is
now in a phase of recovery, rather than further decline. Europe, by
contrast, is only now entering the period of greatest cyclical pressures.
What
does the US experience and the cyclical decoupling across the Atlantic
mean for European property and credit markets, as well as for the wider
economy and for currencies and interest rates?
Anatole
Kaletsky - EPRA Annual Conference 2008
EPRA
represents the publicly traded real estate sector in Europe.
Membership
and Mission
EPRA’s members are Europe’s leading property companies,
investors and consultants that together have more than EUR 300 billion of
real estate assets. With more than 200 active members, EPRA is the voice
of the European publicly traded real estate sector. We work to encourage
greater investment in listed real estate companies in Europe through the
provision of better information to investors, improvement of the general
operating environment, encouragement of best practices and the cohesion
and strengthening of the industry.
Objectives
EPRA
strives to establish best practices in accounting, reporting and corporate
governance, to provide high-quality information to investors and to create
a framework for debate and decision-making on the issues that determine
the future of the sector. As a member of REESA - The Real Estate Equities
Securities Association, EPRA works in close coordination with NAREIT – The
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts – the representative
body for the publicly traded REIT sector in the United States, APREA – The
Asian Public Real Estate Association – the representative body for the
publicly traded real estate sector in Asia, and other industry
organisations to promote their common interests in this dynamic and highly
international industry.
Membership gives you access to the
following products
Monthly: Statistical Bulletin, Chart Book, Review
Annual:
Correlations Report, Corporate Governance Report, Best Practices
Recommendations, Global REIT Survey Ad Hoc Reports, plus full www.epra.com
access
Organisation
EPRA’s success is based on its
working committees, which develop and drive the agenda of the association.
Each committee brings together experts from different countries and
sectors of the real estate industry to provide the insight and expertise
needed to meet the challenges facing the listed real estate sector in
Europe. The working committees are the Research Committee, Global Index
Advisory Committee, Best Practices Committee, Tax Committee, Events
Committee and Broadening the Investor Base Committee. Together they enable
EPRA to provide high quality services to its members and fulfil its
mission and objectives.
Governance
Founded in 1999, EPRA
is a not-for-profit association registered in the Netherlands. The
association is governed by a Management Board, which delegates some of its
functions to a nine-member Executive Board.
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