IPF Research Programme 2025 Grant Awards

The IPF Research Programme is delighted to launch its 2025 Grant Award scheme.

The aim of the scheme is to provide financial assistance, of up to £9,000, to encourage real estate investment research. Prospective applicants are encouraged to examine issues that would advance the real estate investment industry’s understanding of and implications for asset pricing, risk-adjusted performance and investment strategy. This year, the Research Programme would be particularly interested in the following themes:

• How to access investment in data centres?
• Tokenisation of real assets

The scheme is also open to individuals working within institutional organisations, where the grant may be used to fund data acquisition (as financial support is unlikely to be appropriate).

The deadline for submissions is 18 September 2025 and proposals will be evaluated by the Grant Selection Committee, a sub-committee of the IPF Research Steering Group. There is not a defined number of grant awards. It is expected that research will take three to four months and final reports should be made available by the end of February 2026. The successful research will be showcased, either together or separately, in webinars taking place in March/April 2026.

Additional information on the submission process is provided in the Grant Awards Submission Guidelines 2025.

IPF Research Grant Submission Guidelines 2025

This is the fourth year of the Grant Award Programme. The Grant scheme was first run in 2021 and three applicants were awarded grants. In 2023, the scheme was repeated for a second time, with six successful applicants and, in 2024, two research teams received grants.To view Grant Award recipient reports please click here.