Corporate real estate: investment and global cities

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Posted on: 6 March 2012
By: mackene
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This paper represents a scoping exercise among some of RICS’ key stakeholders through a number of global discussion forums. Between late 2011 and early 2012 RICS convened a number of roundtable discussions in a selection of cities in which it operates. Participants at each city discussion included a combination of senior management of  major corporate occupiers (e.g. Directors of Property, Heads of Real Estate), service providers (often RICS members) from real estate firms and other property professionals. The participants based their discussions on the same set of topics, which included: why they chose to locate in that specific city/city-region; their city’s relationship with the rest of the country and region; whether there were any real market constraints to locating in the city; existing or emerging best practice in the way that real estate service providers were working with occupiers in that location. Each city page in this report includes a set of economic and demographic data to provide a wider context to the anecdotal evidence.

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