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whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Subprime financing is on the upswing, and for a lot of people that’s a problem. The mortgage meltdown is widely identified with subprime lending so why should the return of such loans be welcomed?

whitePaper | June 9, 2022

According to Forbes, real estate has minted more billionaires today than any other asset class. Real estate tokenization is an emerging trend representing the convergence of real estate investing and blockchain technology.

whitePaper | May 6, 2022

They’ve long been seen as defensive, since traditional bricks and mortar can usually survive any downturn. But investors should be cautious about relying on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) if the current macro headwinds lead to a recession, says strategist Peter van der Welle.

whitePaper | November 22, 2022

Commercial real estate was once viewed as a niche investment sector, but after several decades of evolution, it has emerged as a core asset class for many institutional investors. In recent decades, liquidity has improved, transparency has risen, and core real estate’s investor base has broadened substantially. Joint ventures, private funds, and public and private real estate companies draw capital from sources both foreign and domestic. These vehicles and their investors play an important role in today’s real estate capital markets.

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

In the last two years, the world has suffered through a global pandemic, an active war in Europe, a 6.5% global unemployment rate (and rising), and annual inflation rates, which have more than doubled from just one year ago. Naturally, this has had immense repercussions on the world markets and triggered global financial and economic crises that were simply unimaginable at the start of the decade.

whitePaper | October 14, 2022

ESG is seriously lacking structure. This may not be ground-breaking news, but frustrations are not tempering any time soon. In the real estate sector specifically, a place where scrutiny is feverishly increasing, there is a real lack of consensus as to what an ESG integrated portfolio actually looks like. Sustainability strategies are stagnating, targets are not being met and there’s no uniformed approach to benchmarking as everyone is doing their own thing. That’s not to criticise organisations’ best intentions but without a uniformed approach to ESG, only confusion and apprehension will continue to remain.