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PropTech Innovations in Real Estate Investment and Finance by Yishuang Xu (Hardback)
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9781032824246
Published:
02 Dec 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
280 pages
Dimensions:
246mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
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The real estate industry is undergoing unprecedented transformations driven by emerging technologies and sustainability practices. This textbook explores the intersection of PropTech, blockchain and sustainability, shaping the future landscape of real estate investment and finance.
The real estate industry is undergoing unprecedented transformations driven by emerging technologies and sustainability practices. This textbook explores the intersection of PropTech, blockchain and sustainability, shaping the future landscape of real estate investment and finance. The book is a straightforward guide to understanding how new technologies are changing the real estate industry. It explains in clear, everyday language the key digital innovations like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and blockchain transforming how homes and buildings are designed, constructed, bought, sold, financed, and managed.The book shows how these new PropTech tools make real estate transactions faster, easier and more efficient for buyers, sellers, agents, investors, developers and property managers through real-world examples and case studies. Readers will learn how smart sensors and automated systems make buildings and homes smarter, greener and more sustainable. They will discover how innovations like digital listing platforms and virtual tours are improving marketing and connectivity between agents and clients.The book covers property search, online transactions, crowdfunding, blockchain for fractional ownership, automated valuations, and sustainability in real estate. In a simple, modular format, readers can focus on the real estate tech topics most relevant to their needs and test their knowledge and understanding using the end of chapter engagement exercises. Whether you are a real estate professional, student, investor or just a technology enthusiast, this book provides the essential knowledge you need to understand the digital transformation of the real estate sector in simple language anyone can understand.The book equips readers with the necessary information to leverage these PropTech tools and innovations for smarter, more efficient, future-oriented real estate.
About the Author: Dr Yishuang Xu is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Real Estate at the University of Manchester, UK. She completed her PhD in Real Estate Finance at the University of Hong Kong. She worked as an Assistant Professor at the Capital University of Economics and Business, China, and as a researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining the University of Manchester. Her recent research focuses on real estate finance with a core interest in digitalisation, innovation, and sustainability in real estate.Leo Ming Yan LO is an Estate Surveyor and possesses over 20 years' experience in the real estate and capital market industry. By leveraging his digital assets and investment in an industry-leading portfolio of companies, Lo is developing the real estate business as a futurist. He is the founder of Asia PropTech (https://www.asiaprop.tech/) and his own real estate technology company, which is working on A.I. and blockchain applications in the real estate sector, with solutions in Automated Valuation Model and tech-enabled real estate data analysis. Lo is in high demand as a speaker for his thought leadership at international conferences and is regularly invited to share his thoughts on real estate, PropTech and capital markets in several TV channels and business magazines, e.g. Cable TV, HKIBC, TVB, Now TV, and Bloomberg Businessweek, etc. Lo teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Business School) as an Adjunct Assistant Professor and HKU Institute for China Business as a Guest Lecturer.Andy King Man Yiu is currently the Head of Sustainable Investing with Cheung On Securities, an asset management firm in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was Head of Corporate Finance with a multinational fintech company, CFO of an international real estate investment firm and Investment Director of a Hong Kong-listed real estate investment company. Andy has over 15 years of professional experience in corporate finance with a global deal record of real estate investment of circa USD 1.4 billion. He is frequently invited to interviews and events as a lecturer/ speaker/ moderator on topics related to tokenisation and ESG/ sustainability. Andy is a co-founding executive committee member of PropTech Institute, a non-profit association registered in Hong Kong promoting property technology for a more sustainable built world in Asia.
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