CEPI - European Association of Real Estate Professions

On June 11 CEPI held  the third meeting in 2019 of its Board of Directors at its headquarters in Brussels.

On May 20th CEPI held in Brussels the first meeting of its EUREDUC Special Committee in charge of monitoring and continuously evaluating the implementation of the new EUREDUC programme, CEPI’s project offering a common syllabus for all students following a real estate programme, aimed at setting high quality standards for future real estate professionals by ensuring that they receive an education that helps them be aware of the needs of the market, and also to be able to provide the best quality service to their clients.

On 30 April the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) issued an opinion on a case about Airbnb Ireland referred to the ECJ by the Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (Regional Court, Paris), for a preliminary ruling on the freedom of Airbnb to provide services in France.

Looking ahead to the European elections in May CEPI has published its manifesto for the European elections 2019, a message from real estate professionals to decision makers.

On 24 April CEPI’s Director-General Guy Valkenborg and Policy Director Janet Griffiths met with the European Commission, DG Justice and Consumers, to discuss its current work on the prevention of money laundering.

CEPI is introducing a new series of web-based information sessions (CEPI Academy) for its members on important topics of shared interest. The first CEPI Academy took place on 8 April 2019 on the topic of the European Professional Card (EPC) with the participation of the European Commission.

On Thursday 28 to Friday 29 March CEPI held two days of meetings in Malaga on the occasion of its first General Meeting (GM) of 2019.

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has published its International Property Market Review for the first quarter of 2019. It examines residential property price growth in Austria, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) as well as the rest of the EU. Residential property prices in Austria continued to rise +8.0%, year on year in the third quarter of 2018. At nearly +10% year on year, the pace of the residential property price increase was particularly marked outside of Vienna (i.e. in Austria excluding Vienna).

On 28 February to 1 March CEPI held a high-level meeting of presidents and CEOs from its member associations in Vienna to discuss current priorities at national and European level.

On February 4th CEPI held in Brussels its first EUREDUC event since launching a new version of EUREDUC, its European project on education.

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has started to publish online a quarterly market review (available in German only) about trends and statistics of the property market.

On 29 November, a CEPI delegation consisting of Luc Machon, Gijs de Jager, Elisabeth Rohr and Guy Valkenborg visited our Swiss member SVIT in Zurich. SVIT was represented by their Vice President Michel Molinari, CEO Marcel Hug and Vice CEO Ivo Cathomen.

CEPI is pleased to announce the first result of its cooperation with its knowledge partner for the USA real estate market, OPISAS, the Joint Report on USA Residential Real Estate Market 2018, available here for download.

Our knowledge partner OPISAS was in Warsaw during our AGM session to share with CEPI delegates the firsts results of our partnership and to explain to CEPI members all benefits linked to this cooperation.

On 13 November the European Parliament voted in favour of the three of the outstanding elements of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package published by the European Commission in 2016. Agreement was reached on two new targets for the EU in 2030: a binding renewable energy target of at least 32% and an energy efficiency target of at least 32.5%. These policies are expected to lead to a reduction in emissions of around 45% by 2030.