RICS Americas Markets Council To Address Macro-Economic Issues And Promote Best Practice In Deal-Making


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02/01/2010 11:42

NEW YORK – February 1, 2010 – RICS Americas announced today the official roster of the organization’s Markets Council and outlined its initial goals.

The RICS Americas Markets Council represents members whose expertise includes real estate finance, real estate investment, economics, brokerage/advisory, development, data provision, and corporate owner occupation.

The Council and its members have six primary goals:
  1. To serve the public and clients by representing and coordinating the transaction-based commercial property disciplines.
  2. To be an official RICS Americas source of information and opinion on topics relating to real estate and capital markets, especially for press statements and representations to government.
  3. To raise the profile of RICS in the global transaction-based community including investors, developers, brokers, financiers, data providers and economists.
  4. To improve the business and professional network available to RICS members across all world regions.
  5. To develop and enforce member allegiance to principles and standards constituting best practice.
  6. To promote working partnerships with other respected organizations serving real estate and capital markets.
“The first mission of the Markets Council is to discern for the wider RICS membership and its clients the impact of recent economic volatility on deal making prospects for the new decade,” said Tony Grant FRICS, the council chairman. “By offering strong guidance to the community of brokers, investors and all the specialties that support their business, we can help ensure adherence to best practice and ethical transparency. At the same time, we will benefit from RICS’s global reach across 140 countries to bring an international dimension to deal making in the Americas region.”

The other members of the Council by specialty are:

Real Estate Finance
Marc Louargand FRICS, Saltash Partners LLC

Real Estate Investment
Guy Benn MRICS, Savills Granite LLC
Catherine House FRICS, CB Richard Ellis
Frank Liantonio FRICS, Cushman and Wakefield
Carmela Ma FRICS, CJM Associates Inc.
John O’Bryan MRICS, CB Richard Ellis

Economics
Sam Chandan FRICS, Real Estate Econometrics

Brokerage/Advisory
Sheila Botting FRICS, Cushman and Wakefield
Maureen Ehrenberg FRICS, CB Richard Ellis
Paul Waters FRICS, NAI Global
Robin White FRICS, Avison Young Commercial Real Estate

Development
Niall Collins MRICS, Shelbourne Developments
Julian Josephs FRICS, Julian Josephs Company

Data Provision
Bob White FRICS, Real Capital Analytics

Corporate Owner Occupation
Elizabeth Belenchia MRICS, Carroll Properties Corporation
Clive Lowe FRICS, Macquarie Aviation North America
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About RICS & RICS Americas
RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), with headquarters in London, is the leading organization of its kind in the world for more than 100,000 professionals in property, land, construction and related environmental issues.

RICS Americas, based in New York and covering North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, has more than 2,000 members in commercial, industrial and residential development, construction and project management, brokerage, planning and finance, valuation and fine arts appraisal. For further information visit www.ricsamericas.org or e-mail ricsamericas@rics.org.



RICS Americas press contact:
Will Safer
Communications Manager
212-847-7400
wsafer@rics.org