Q: Who is IPD?
Q: What does IPD do?
Q: What services does IPD offer?
Q: What countries do you cover?
Q: What is the company structure?
Q: What is IPD Occupiers?
Q: Who are IPD's main clients?
Q: How do the clients use IPD information?
Q: What do you gain from using IPD?
Q: How do I join IPD?
Q: What type of information is required to join IPD?
Q: How do you start a new country service?
Q: Who is IPD?
A: IPD (Investment Property Databank) is a global real estate information business with services related to the commercial real estate market, who employs over 250 graduates worldwide to provide institutional investors, occupiers, advisors and researchers with objective, reliable real estate benchmarks and market indices.
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Q: What does IPD do?
A: IPD produces high quality research and analysis reports which are used around the world by real estate investors, occupiers, advisors, lenders, analysts and researchers.
These consist of:
- Property Portfolio analysis on commercial property investment funds. This gives property fund managers and investors fair benchmarks for total returns, plus a full evaluation of investment strategy and property portfolio analysis quality.
- Indices and market information to give the definitive statement for property returns in each country and each city. This provides a consistent basis for comparison with other assets, and for research that informs real estate investment decisions from international property portfolio allocation down to individual building selection.
Headline results from our indices are free and can be downloaded from this site under market Indices. Other publications are available on a subscription basis in various packages. Please e-mail marketing@ipd.com for more information or call +44 (0)20 7643 9229.
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Q: What services does IPD offer?
A:
- Portfolio Analysis Service (PAS) & benchmarking
- Real estate market information and publications
- D-PAS – (Desktop-PAS). Available for PAS clients this software can be used to analyse the performance and characteristics of the real estate market portfolios and benchmarks from your own PC, with exclusive access to figures not available in the report.
- IPD Online - Available for PAS and Publications clients, this is a secure delivery mechanism giving secure access to report publications.
- Research - Publications and custom data
- Remuneration Service – This offers independent design advice to instruct lawyers, help with selection of appropriate real estate benchmarks and targets, ability to model historic or potential out-turn of proposed schemes and authoritative advice on all technical aspects of property portfolio analysis and real estate performance measurement.
- IPD Events - These include conferences, training and briefings
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Q: What countries do you cover?
A: IPD cover a growing range of countries and real estate market. At present we have databanks in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and USA.
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Q: What is the company structure?
A: IPD’s Head Office is based in London, UK with subsidiaries in Paris - IPD France, Frankfurt - IPD Germany, Stockholm - IPD Norden, Chicago - IPD US, Tokyo - IPD Japan, Johannesburg - IPD South Africa, and Melbourne - IPD Australia. In other countries we work with local partners who are established within their particular country and real estate markets to provide a regional contact in the national language. This ensures that property performance analysis is completed by professionals with intimate knowledge of the local real estate market.
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Q: What is IPD Occupiers?
A: IPD Occupiers is the market leader in its field of real estate property performance measurement for occupiers, with clients from a long list of FTSE 100 and multinational companies. The Databank contains a building-by-building record of complete estates markets showing total occupational costs, building utilisation, facilities and real estate management overheads to give owners a thorough profile and comparative management tool.
IPD Occupiers also runs a Facilities Management benchmarking group, a Workplace Productivity Appraisal and publishes the International Total Occupancy Cost Code. To see the IPD Occupiers website go to www.ipdoccupiers.com
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Q: Who are IPD's main clients?
A: IPD’s more than 600 clients consist of pension funds, life assurance and property companies who rely on accurate information produced by our team of all-graduate analysts and researchers. IPD Occupiers supply management information to nearly 1000 business and public sector clients.
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Q: How do the clients use IPD information?
A: Real estate owners and investors around the world need an industry standard yardstick against which they can compare the returns they achieve on their investments and analyse their performance. The IPD indices provide this benchmark in over 20 countries.
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Q: What do you gain from using IPD?
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- An independent audit of investment returns, calculated on an industry standard basis
- A benchmarking service which gives owners an objective measure of their real esate performance against relevant yardsticks
- Systematic analysis of the sources of above- or below-average performance
- A powerful internal management tool to help to set agendas, monitor progress against targets, and to guide strategy, stock selection and active management decisions
- Results in electronic form to permit further internal analysis
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Q: How do I join IPD?
A: Visit our Global Network section for the local contacts in each real estate market. You can also email marketing@ipd.com or call 44 (0)20 7336 9229 for more information.
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Q: What type of information is required to join IPD?
A: To participate in the Portfolio Analysis Service (PAS) you will need to provide:
- A series of annual open market capital values, carried out to the standard specification for that country, property level rent passing and open market rental value.
- A schedule of tenant leases as at the most recent valuation date, including tenant level rent passing and market rental value.
- Annual capital expenditure amounts, preferably timed to the month or quarter
- Completion dates of transactions, with gross and net purchase and sale prices
- Property management costs
- Other non-recoverable revenue expenditure (vacant rates, non-recoverable maintenance costs, bad debts etc).
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Q: How do you start a new country service?
A: IPD systems can be established in any country where property investors are committed to understanding the financial performance of their holdings within the commercial real estate market. This commitment can then ensure that the essential building blocks of the IPD databank are in place:
- Valuations: In the real estate market where transactions are few, appraisals of market value are needed to form the capital basis of the return calculation. If necessary, IPD will work with local bodies to develop valuation standards to performance measurement.
- Participation: IPD databases require a critical mass to build adequate samples of properties to cover complex national markets. Typically investors holding at least 20% of the investment market are required to form the core of the new system.
- Definitions: Nationally accepted and appropriate data definitions must be agreed to ensure the compatibility between investors while maintaining the application of international principals
How will the system be established?
- Promotion: IPD will work within the market, most likely in collaboration with a local partner with expertise in the immediate property market, to identify and secure the critical mass of participating investor organisations.
- Development: The databank will be constructed by IPD in collaboration with participating investors to ensure that market characteristics are reflected and their reporting needs are met.
- Data Testing: IPD will analyse the data initially submitted to ensure its quality is sufficient to support the benchmarks and real estate market indices. Improvements will be proposed and verified before full products and services are available.
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