Technology

Investors need to consider multiple drivers when thinking about demand for digital assets in the region, writes Brigg Macadam’s emerging market banker and ADIA’s former real estate global chief operating officer Martin Schwarzburg.

Managers today face growing compliance pressures, from investors, occupiers and regulators. But, some see it as an opportunity to evolve their business.

The San Francisco-based private investment firm launched and held a first close on the open-end vehicle earlier this year.

Goodwin Gaw, chairman and founder of the firm, explained the strategy behind Gateway Strategic Acquisitions during a PERE Global Passport Deep Dive.

The ex-Tristan Capital executive believes the $5.5bn raised by the managers of PERE’s Proptech 20 ranking could eventually grow to 10 times that size.

PATRIZIA’s Paul Hampton and Marcelo Cajias explain how data intelligence adds a cutting edge to investment decision-making.

Fifth Wall’s dominance in PERE’s inaugural Proptech 20 ranking is reminiscent of Blackstone’s in the private real estate sector’s main capital market space.

Proptech investing started largely as a balance sheet cost for managers to drive efficiencies in their real estate portfolios. Today, it is the focus of a whole new wave of capital raising, highlighted by PERE’s inaugural Proptech 20 ranking.

Janine Yorio, head of real estate at the crowdfunding platform Republic, tells PERE how NFTs have led to a rise in virtual real estate investment.

Beyond improving global supply chains, technology innovation can impact the location, design and use of industrial assets.