2018. The year after a decade of Barometer Public Real Estate required a reorientation ofthe added social and scientific value of the Barometer. I am convinced, based on ten years ofBarometer Public Real Estate, that this value lies in further professionalisation of the socialorganisations that employ real estate as an asset for achieving their social objectives. Thisincreasingly requires you to lift yourself to a higher strategic level as a professional organisationand to learn from other industry organisations, both nationally and internationally.That is why an increasingly multi- and interdisciplinary real estate approach is the key tosuccessful, versatile real estate that remains coordinated with social issues. The Conference ofInterdisciplinary Research on Real Estate (CIRRE) on September 20-21 at the Hanze Universityof Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands, is a prime example of this. Hence the currentBarometer Public Real Estate 2018, which is mostly oriented internationallysince we are slowly gaining an international foothold with regards to public real estate researchand we also act as research partners internationally more often. In 2018, we were able topresent various research projects as lectorate Public Real Estate at the American and EuropeanReal Estate Society in respectively Florida, USA and London, UK, as well as at the 2ndConference Interdisciplinary Research of Real Estate in Cartagena, Spain in 2017. Multipleinternational Journal publications by the lectorate Public Real Estate also took place in 2018and earlier. In addition, this year will be the start in the Netherlands of the RICS professionalgroup Public Real Estate, which presented its first position paper at the CIRRE 2018 conference.This year will also see a separate publication of the research of professor Marleen Hermans ofDelft University about the embedding of the commissioning role in municipal organisations,to which we were able to make great contribution.This year, I have chosen a collection of articles the majority of which was presented at theCIRRE 2018 conference and with relevance for Public Real Estate, digitalization and the RICS.In addition, joint research was added from the expert partners bbn, institute VGM, Metafoorand the lectorate Public Real Estate in 2018, on professionalisation of municipal real estate inthe Netherlands. Digitalization was added since this will have a large influence on real estateprocesses, including Public Real Estate. As not all professionals and/or research projects havean international orientation yet, you will find contributions both in English and in Dutch in thisbook, as well as the contact details of the authors. This allows you to contact them regardingthis publication in your own language. I hope to have once again contributed to the discussionsurrounding the commitment of Public Real Estate.Jan VeugerProfessor Public Real Estate