Dr. Mana Nimitwanich, new director of the Real Estate Information Center (REIC), outlined a strategic shift from backward-looking data curation to forward-looking market analysis and trend forecasting. With a PhD in economics and 7 years at Krung Thai Bank, he aims to leverage REIC's vast data to guide policy and business investment decisions, including research into emerging behaviors like younger consumers preferring rental over homeownership. This positions REIC as an active market-shaping institution rather than a passive data repository.