Industry Intel and News

Industry Intel and News

Data is the oil that this industry runs on. Here, for CRE industry insiders, is a collection of articles with the latest commercial real estate research, intelligence, news, research, gossip and data.
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This is your one stop page for all commercial real estate research, industry intel and gossip.

Data is the oil that the commercial real estate (CRE) industry runs on.

Here you can get all of your questions answered.

What are normal asking rentals for an area? While who are the top performing brokers in an area. When is space becoming available, and what do the supply side and demand side pressures look like. Finally, how does all of this look relative property grades, suburbs, availability dates.

Similarly, how many properties per category and area?

What does the commercial real estate’s data look like?

Solar for CRE
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Solar for commercial real estate

For a South African CRE industry buffeted by Covid, weak economic growth and public sector incompetence, is solar power too good to be true? Is solar indeed one of property’s unicorns – a positively geared investment with increasing cash flows – and what are the risks associated with it?

Automate CRE data work
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CRE data: outsourced

Apple, one of the most profitable businesses in the world, is the king of outsourcing. Its brains reside in California, while its grunt work is spread to specialists all over the world. Is CRE missing a trick? Like the strategic minds at Apple, can it farm back office services to cheaper, specialist hands – and drive greater profitability?

Black Pepper Properties commercial property
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White paper: the professional CRE brokerage of tomorrow

What is the role of early adopters in our CRE industry? What characterises these individuals, and how can they help me? Simon Black MRICS, an experienced professional, is one of these. Always seeking the latest tools and innovation, clients can trust them to apply best practices, while the industry follows their lead.

121 Real Estate CRE speed
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White paper: CRE speed drives 121 Real Estate success

Nobody loves change, but change is happening. Clients of the CRE industry, wearing their consumer hats, are seeing positive data-fueled efficiencies from shopping to travel to insurance, day-to-day. Now they are expecting the same benefits of speed, control and greater transparency in their CRE dealings. How are the world’s top CRE business responding?

CRE Africa growth
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Commercial property in Africa – $648B dev pipeline?

Africa’s annual GDP is $2.6T, and her population of consumers is large (and expanding fast). A surge in African CRE development to reach the normal global CRE ratio of 34% would trigger prosperity multiplier effects. So what’s holding the industry’s maturity and growth back? And, if there are blockers, can or will technology advancements solve them?

African PropTech VC funding opportunities
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African PropTech VC funding – is an explosion due?

Africa, the world’s youngest continent, projecting 80% population growth in the next 3 decades, is seeing growing flows of venture capital. Pioneer investors like Y Combinator, and tech accelerators are entering the market. What do they know that others don’t? What is the likely effect on historically overlooked PropTech in Africa?

Commercial property brokerage success
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CRE brokerage white paper: boutique brokerage

Lots of theory, chatter and noise about the positive and negative impacts of PropTech out there. This is a practical example, from the lens of an industry-leading CRE brokerage, unpacking the impact of technology adoption. Shalan Properties (the first in a series) shares its experience with you