European Commercial Real Estate Data Alliance

Benefit European commercial real estate investment and finance markets by improving access to and understanding of available CRE data to facilitate higher quality applied research and more frequent interaction between investors, data providers and academics, who plan to work together to achieve data parity for CRE with other major asset classes, like stocks and bonds."

About Us

Our objectives

Knowledge transfer 


E-CREDA facilitates data vendors and partners to develop their data products and services by allowing investors and managers' subscriptions to be shared with academic partners for specific applied research projects of practical use to investors and managers.

Exchange of insights 


E-CREDA increases the practical relevance of academic collaboration by improving data access to a broader range of legacy and emerging data sources to answer specific practical problems facing investors and managers.

Diffusion of findings


E-CREDA promotes innovation in applied research by investors and managers by allowing them to mobilise all the available data and scientific approach to use them in addressing specific market and strategic issues.

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Who are we?

The board

The board

Marcelo Cajias – Chair – PATRIZIA SE

Marc FranckeSecretary - University of Amsterdam

Willem Vlaming – Treasurer – MSCI


Institutional members

Hans Vrensen - AEW Europe

Kasia Dziewulska – CBRE

Dennis Schoenmaker – CBRE

Jo Bronckers – FIBREE

Cecile Blanchard – BPCE

Zoltan Szelyes – Dicoval AG

Academic members

Martin Hoesli – University of Geneva

Sven Bienert – IRE|BS Regensburg

Bing Zhu – Technische Universität München


Special advisors

Jacob Sagi – Special advisor - UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Jens Mehrhoff – Special advisor - IMF