The Real Estate Equity Securitization Alliance (REESA), a global alliance of REIT associations, held its spring 2024 semiannual meeting in Singapore on April 17. Leveraging the long-standing infrastructure of its members—which include Nareit’s global counterparts from Asia Pacific, Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the U.K.—REESA helps to promote, protect, and expand REITs around the world.
Nareit’s Steve Wechsler, Ayris T. Scales, and John Worth attended the meeting, along with: Michael Brooks, CEO, Real Property Association of Canada (REALPAC); Tateyuki Ikura, managing director, Association for Real Estate Securitization (ARES); Hiromasa Koizumi, deputy secretary general, Association for Real Estate Securitization (ARES); Dominique Moerenhout, CEO, European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA); Sigrid Zialcita, CEO, Asia Pacific Real Assets Association; and Michael Zorbas, chief executive, Property Council of Australia (PCA).
Items addressed at the meeting included key emerging global issues around sustainability, taxes, and markets; as well as developing a 10-year plan to further advance REESA’s commitment to promoting, supporting, and scaling the REIT regime globally via programming, advocacy, and capacity-building for REITs and REIT associations in other countries.
While in Singapore, REESA members also joined more than 100 industry leaders and professionals at the Asia Pacific Real Assets Association (APREA)-SGX Global REIT Roundtable. Nareit CEO Steve Wechsler joined EPRA CEO Dominique Moerenhout and REALPAC CEO Michael Brooks for a panel discussion moderated by Roberto Versace, chairman of the APREA Hong Kong Chapter.
REESA’s next semiannual meeting will take place in September in Berlin, adjacent to EPRA annual conference.