Founder-CEO & Chief Analyst, Real Estate Foresight

Robert Ciemniak

Robert is the Founder-CEO & Chief Analyst of Real Estate Foresight Ltd (REF) (www.realestateforesight.com), an independent analytics, research, and consulting firm based in Hong Kong and focused on the Mainland China property markets. 

Since 2012, REF has been helping investors with market research, project due diligence, and strategy development.

This has ranged from detailed assessments and estimates on distressed developers' project portfolios to market due diligence on specific projects to macro-level questions linked to demand for commodities.

The unique combination of the housing markets and developer data from data partner China Index Academy in Beijing, primary research, and technology-powered alternative data collection from public sources result in a valuable content set used in REF analytics and reports.

More info: https://www.realestateforesight.com

Robert started the company in 2012, after 13 years at Thomson Reuters in two major roles as Global Head of Real Estate Markets (London/Hong Kong) and earlier as Head of Corporate Foresight in Group Strategy in London. He holds a dual MBA degree from London Business School and Columbia Business School in New York, and MSc from Warsaw School of Economics. Robert holds an international master in chess title.

In 2017, Robert founded Robotic Online Intelligence Ltd (ROI) (www.roboticonline.ai), a startup in AI-powered automation of research for data collection and market intelligence, serving primarily data companies and research firms. 

ROI's Kubro(TM) Information Engine enterprise SaaS solution has been deployed commercially since 2018, with clients in the US, UK, and Asia, in areas ranging from real estate, and policy research, to data centers, and carbon and digital asset markets.

Founder-CEO & Chief Analyst

China New Home Sales In August Slow Down Gradually To +10.3% YTD Y/ Y, In Line With Our Expectations

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China Housing: The Cyclicality of City-Level Markets

China Property: The Case Of Shanghai - July Update

Real Estate Foresight

Since 2012, REF has been helping investors with market research, project due diligence, and strategy development. This has ranged from detailed assessments and estimates on distressed developers' project portfolios to market due diligence on specific projects to macro-level questions linked to demand for commodities. The unique combination of the housing markets and developer data from data partner China Index Academy in Beijing, primary research, and technology-powered alternative data collection from public sources result in a valuable content set used in REF analytics and reports.

Predictive Analytics for China Property

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

China Real estate management and development / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>In July, China's national new home (“commercial residential”) sales GFA increased by 11.5% YTD YoY, 0.3% YoY, 14.8% 12M rolling YoY - compared to 13.5%, 18.4% and 16.1% in June, respectively, based on the latest data published by NBS, renewing the deceleration trend of the past 15 months after some pickup in June.</p><p>Earlier in June (now the city level data is complete for June to calculate the figures by tier, but not for July yet), the pickup was mainly thanks to acceleration among the Tier-2…</p>

In July, China's national new home (“commercial residential”) sales GFA increased by 11.5% YTD YoY, 0.3% YoY, 14.8% 12M rolling YoY - compared to 13.5%, 18.4% and 16.1% in June, respectively, based on the latest data published by NBS, renewing the deceleration trend of the past 15 months after some pickup in June.Earlier in June (now the city level data is complete for June to calculate the figures by tier, but not for July yet), the pickup was mainly thanks to acceleration among the Tier-2…

China New Home Sales In July Slowed Down But Still At +11.5% YTD Y/Y Thanks To Non-Tier-1 Cities