Real estate technology trends

How will technological innovation and big data affect institutional investors, assessment, acquisition and management of real estate assets? How can technology be applied to improve investment processes and help drive returns? And how are such changes influencing the relationships among investors, consultants and investment managers?

These questions were posed during a virtual roundtable with institutional investors, consultants and investment managers Aug. 3 by Institutional Real Estate, Inc. on real estate technology trends. The in-depth discussion was moderated by Reno Sio, managing director, Asia Pacific, at IREI.

Key takeaways include: Proptech can play a major role in helping investors and their managers mitigate risk. Data-analytics tools can do predictive work, combing through vast amounts of information to determine predictive factors for tenant demand — such as industrial demands in a particular area or city — that even the best mi