MSCI GLOBAL DATA STANDARDS FOR REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT

The MSCI Global Data Standards for Real Estate Investment together with the MSCI Global Methodology Standards for Real Estate Investment aim to provide a new platform of data definitions and calculations that support integrated measurement of performance and risk for private commercial real estate investments.

The MSCI Global Data Standards for Real Estate Investment provide the basis of data definitions upon which all our private commercial real estate products are now built.  They reflect the fact that real estate is no longer mainly the focus of domestic investors whose mandates are defined by national boundaries. The Global Data Standards have been developed to define and standardize the data that underpin performance measurement and risk reporting in an era of ambitious cross-border real estate investment strategies.

There are already a number of real estate standards in existence today, or currently under development, and most of these focus on best practices in valuation and governance. The MSCI Global Data Standards for Real Estate Investment  are intended to complement these by focusing on the data needed for investment performance measurement at the fund, asset and tenant level.

Potential benefits include:

• Better informed decision-making through enhanced cross-border and cross-asset class comparability.

• Improved data quality and quicker availability of performance results, due to process rationalization.

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Indexes

We produce indexes for both privately-held real estate portfolios, as well as publicly-listed organisations. We hold the privately-held real estate information of hundreds of institutional investors’ real estate portfolios. This information has produced a unique database which holds almost 80,000 searchable properties, valued at approximately USD 1.7trillion, which are located in 33 countries. The information provides a long performance history (25+ years for many markets) and which are mostly appraised quarterly.

• The end of day data on publicly-listed real estate organisations shows you the latest index positions of our publicly-listed real estate indexes.
• You can read about our real estate index category and find out more about how we offer the industry’s most expansive range of real estate information.
• Our real estate index factsheet search enables you to find the latest available information on our most popular real estate indexes.
• Our index release schedule indicates when the privately-held real estate indexes are released.

The Global Methodology Standards for Real Estate Investment describes the main procedures, methods and rules which govern MSCI’s definition and computation of IPD indexes and benchmarks. The updated Methodology Standards will take effect of July 12, 2016 in connection with the release of second quarter private real estate performance results.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:         

• NEW - Summary of changes – Global Methodology Standards for Real Estate Investments (September, 2016)
• IPD Indexes – methodology change announcement (June 2016)
• Change in asset exclusion rules (April 2015)

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Analytics

Our real estate analytics enable robust and independent measurement and analysis to track portfolio performance and risk. This analysis, which reports performance at fund, portfolio or asset level, can make a key contribution to asset allocation and management efficiency. Sectors covered our real estate performance and risk analytics suite include agriculture, derivatives, healthcare, hotels, infrastructure, occupiers, lending, logistics, residential, retail, social housing,  and sustainability. Contact our dedicated client service team to learn more.

The IPD Rental Information Service (IRIS) helps researchers, fund managers and investors assess the strengths and weaknesses of their future income. It monitors cashflow risk by credit rating individual tenants and analysing lease structures in detail. Review the latest income risk benchmarking results.

The Global Analytics Portal, a new dynamic platform for real estate performance and risk analysis, allows for innovative performance and risk benchmarking of both global markets and individual portfolios through greater flexibility and ease of access.

MSCI recognises the impact that environmental considerations have on financial performance (both risk and return) and continue to address the gap between what is available and what is needed by real estate Investors in the field of environmental metrics.

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Research

With our matchless real estate database which contains huge quantities of financial and descriptive data on individual assets, we can interrogate the data to find interesting correlations and create valuable research on our findings. We create direct real estate research which studies market performance trends based on asset-level data. Owners, managers and advisers use this research to understand changes in property values and incomes. We construct fund level indexes (where returns reflect the impacts of leverage and fees) to improve our understanding of global unlisted vehicle performance. We are at the cutting edge of real estate investment research as we create new datasets on emerging and niche areas, including commercial mortgages, infrastructure and social housing.

• You can read our published real estate research papers to discover our latest thinking.
• Our real estate research group provides you with more information about the research we produce.
• Our blog posts on real estate are quick and easy to digest.

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Real Estate Events and Training

We offer global real estate investment education and training. Our expertise draws on our staff as well as leading industry professionals from across our global network. As a platform for communicating this information, we both host and participate in a number of conferences, briefings, launches and training courses. Search our real estate events to find the right one for you.

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