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

Today's China Property And Macro Data: New Home Sales Better Than Expected, Land Sales Accelerate

China Weekly Property Sales Data (13 Cities To November 26) - Signs Of Stabilization

China Weekly Property Sales Data (13 Cities To Nov 12) - Less Negative YTD Y/Y and 4W Y/Y

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

Macroeconomics

<p>A lot of new data on China today. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the key data for December, related to property sales and investments by developers at a national level, showing only a slight deceleration in new home (residential gross floor area) sales growth to +5.3% year-to-date year-on-year, from +5.4% in November and +5.6% in October.  This indicates more resilient sales volumes than broadly expected but in line with what the weekly data for 13 major cities indicated over the last few weeks. </p>

A lot of new data on China today. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the key data for December, related to property sales and investments by developers at a national level, showing only a slight deceleration in new home (residential gross floor area) sales growth to +5.3% year-to-date year-on-year, from +5.4% in November and +5.6% in October.  This indicates more resilient sales volumes than broadly expected but in line with what the weekly data for 13 major cities indicated over the last few weeks. 

MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index (MXASJ INDEX)

Today's China Macro-Property Data: New Home Sales Growth YTD Y/Y Slows Only Slightly In December