CEPI - European Association of Real Estate Professions

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.

On October 25-26, CEPI held a series of meetings in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by its Polish members PREF and PFSZN.

According to Eurostat house prices rose by 4.3% in both the euro area and the EU in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. Compared with the first quarter of 2018, house prices rose by 1.4% in both the euro area and the EU in the second quarter of 2018.

On 11-12 September, CEPI Director-General Guy Valkenborg and CEPI vice President and Chair of the CEAB Professional Committee Jaroslaw Zielínski attended the FREMF organized property managers fair in Lahti, Finland.

CEPI’s knowledge partner OPISAS is celebrating its 10th anniversary. OPISAS is an international company specialising in the sale and brokerage of overseas real estate investments. Since its foundation in 2008 OPISAS has bought, renovated and sold thousands of properties.

CEPI will meet in Warsaw on 25-26 October 2018, at the kind invitation of its Polish members PREF and PFSZN.