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.

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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.

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Sales of residential and mixed-use land use rights (land sales) in 40 major cities in China picked up in Jan-Feb in comparison to the same period in 2016 and were also higher than the equivalent in 2015, according to our analysis of the latest data from SouFun-CREIS. <figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/023/503/original/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-03%20at%2014.46.34.png?1491202162" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="23503"></figure>This is in contrast to the full 2016 vs 2015 comparison when the value of land sales increased substantially but declined in terms of the planned gross floor area (GFA). <figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"><img src="https://static-prod.smartkarma.com/images/media/000/023/504/original/Screen%20Shot%202017-04-03%20at%2014.47.15.png?1491202302" class="editor-image img-responsive" data-smartkarma-image-id="23504"></figure>The larger supply of land in major cities should contribute to…

Sales of residential and mixed-use land use rights (land sales) in 40 major cities in China picked up in Jan-Feb in comparison to the same period in 2016 and were also higher than the equivalent in 2015, according to our analysis of the latest data from SouFun-CREIS. This is in contrast to the full 2016 vs 2015 comparison when the value of land sales increased substantially but declined in terms of the planned gross floor area (GFA). The larger supply of land in major cities should contribute to…

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