EPRA

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The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) is a common interest group, established as a not-for-profit body under Dutch law in October 1999. EPRA has its offices in the World Trade Center located at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. EPRA’s members include the majority of the leading real estate companies and investment institutions in Europe. The active participation of the members’ senior executives, ensures EPRA is a genuinely representative forum and policy-making body. The quality of membership is crucial to fulfilling the Association’s mission.

Governance
The Association is governed by its members through a management board of 25, of which at least 60% must be from real estate companies. This management board delegates executive powers to an Executive Board, which has nine members.

Mission
The mission statement of EPRA is to promote, develop and represent the European public real estate sector. EPRA’s strategy states that, “EPRA will endeavour to establish standards of “best practice” in accounting, reporting and corporate governance; to provide high-quality information to investors; and to create the framework for debate and decision-making on the issues which determine the future of the sector”.

Objectives
The success of EPRA is based on the four working committees, which bring together people from different countries, traditions, cultures and sections of the real estate community. The objective of the Association is to harmonise standards, to integrate workings and to synthesize a single European quoted real estate sector. On a free rotating basis, volunteer professionals with multi-disciplinary backgrounds, give their best efforts to help achieve EPRA’s common goals, so well expressed in the mission statement.

 

 

 

NAREIT

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National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts in the USA.  NAREIT is the representative voice for U.S. REITs and publicly traded real estate companies worldwide. Members are real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other businesses that own, operate and finance income-producing real estate, as well as those firms and individuals who advise, study and service these businesses.

NAREIT provides numerous programs, publications and services to its members as well as to nonmembers. Although nonmembers are eligible for several important educational and networking resources, members are entitled to additional benefits and cost savings noted on this site. NAREIT provides among others:

• Representation before national and state policymakers affecting the REIT and publicly traded real estate industry;
• A voice for the publicly traded real estate industry with the financial media and the investment marketplace;
• Numerous opportunities for REITs and publicly traded real estate companies to network among themselves and with a variety of service providers in the real estate industry;
• Participation on any NAREIT-sponsored committees. Each provides members the opportunity to work side-by-side with industry leaders addressing issues relevant today. Committees include: Accounting, Government Relations, Insurance, and Investor Relations;
• An annual online member directory, the NAREIT Handbook, that sorts associate members alphabetically and geographically, and profiles each corporate member in detail. This information is available on the NAREIT Web site and is updated weekly;
• Real Estate Portfolio, NAREIT’s bi-monthly magazine that addresses a variety of REIT, capital markets and real estate-related issues; and
• Access to the latest industry research information about REITs on the NAREIT Web site.

Over 2,000 REITs, real estate companies, investors, industry professionals, and academics take advantage of membership in NAREIT and our related resources; many more purchase publications and attend events through NAREIT.