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

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)

China Real estate / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan province, made headlines in the Western media a few years ago through the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei0FpwI1dqg" target="_blank">PBS 60 Minutes show</a>, with the city's East New District featured as one of the much talked about China ghost towns. A number of analysts have since shown a more subtle view on the area, but now in our latest data analysis it would appear that in full irony not only is the district out of trouble, but in fact it is one of the better performing districts on 3-month price growth and volume growth for new home sales, when compared against <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-property-220-districts-which-are-the-best-performers" target="_blank">200+ major districts </a>across 23 cities in China. Zhengzhou overall has seen strong performance for home prices and sales volumes, to the point of recent price and volume spikes that brought in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/china-property-new-wave-of-home-purchase-restrictions" target="_blank">home purchase restrictions</a> - to a city normally considered rich in supply... In this note we look at what's really going on in Zhengzhou.</p>

Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan province, made headlines in the Western media a few years ago through the PBS 60 Minutes show, with the city's East New District featured as one of the much talked about China ghost towns. A number of analysts have since shown a more subtle view on the area, but now in our latest data analysis it would appear that in full irony not only is the district out of trouble, but in fact it is one of the better performing districts on 3-month price growth and volume growth for new home sales, when compared against 200+ major districts across 23 cities in China. Zhengzhou overall has seen strong performance for home prices and sales volumes, to the point of recent price and volume spikes that brought in home purchase restrictions - to a city normally considered rich in supply... In this note we look at what's really going on in Zhengzhou.

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China Property: The Case Of Zhengzhou - With A Ghost Town Myth And Bubble Worries