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

Media Coverage / Sentiment On China - What Got Hot, What Faded (May-July 2017)

Media Coverage /​ Sentiment On China - What Got Hot, What Faded (July-August 2017)

8,000 Headlines Later... China 2016: Slowdown, Bubble, Trump

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)

<p>Over the period February 28, 2016, to May 29, 2017, we monitored publicly available online English language 'Western' news headlines from around 10 major mainstream sources, for anything related to China. Close to 12,000 headlines later we've now applied some NLP techniques to see what these headlines tell us about this past year and recent topical issues (for some technical/background details see a footnote below).</p><p>1. One Belt One Road has gained extensive coverage, esp. in the line-up to the…</p>

Over the period February 28, 2016, to May 29, 2017, we monitored publicly available online English language 'Western' news headlines from around 10 major mainstream sources, for anything related to China. Close to 12,000 headlines later we've now applied some NLP techniques to see what these headlines tell us about this past year and recent topical issues (for some technical/background details see a footnote below).1. One Belt One Road has gained extensive coverage, esp. in the line-up to the…

Western Media Coverage/Sentiment On China - What Got Hot (May 2017)