20 Oct, 2017
Real estate — the 2030 view

We are building buildings into a technological future that we have no idea what it will look like.
Key influences:
- The sharing/collaborative economy
- Technology/data management — greater transparency
- Urbanization
- We are moving from smart offices to smart cities and megacities
2030 state:
- Real estate as a mainstream customer-centric industry
- Value shift towards operational management of real estate
- More integration/overlap of real estate sectors
- New dominant group of «place curators»
- Simplified ownership/management structures
- Transformation in valuation methodologies
- Health, wellbeing, sustainability merge as a key driver of real estate value
Residential/Living

Key trends:
- The urban consumers
- Change to live/work balance
- Reducing car ownership
- Ageing population
2030 state:
- Higher density
- More vibrant and live able urban environments, combining live, work, and play
- New growth: health care assisted living
We start seeing a different attitude to size and space. Micro-living is coming. Shared ownership, equity release and retirement living are ripe for opportunity
Office/Work
Key trends:
- Connectivity
- More collaborative working practices
- Artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality
2030 state:
- On demand and use of space leasing
- Offices as high-spec «imaginariums»
- Localized work-hubs/satellite offices
- Fewer single-let buildings as corporate requirements become more fluid
- Domination of share/serviced offices
More people work from home. Companies will need less space and it will change the nature of offices fundamentally. It will make a lot of the current office stock obcolete.
Student housing/Learn
Key trends:
- Technology — distributed learning
- Demographic — changing career plans/lifestyles
- Growing importance of social and collaboration skills
2030 state:
- Reduction in demand for on-campus, year-long students accommodation
- Declining perception in value of university degree
- Increase apprenticeship schemes
- More mature students
Student accommodation is pretty «cooked» in most places. Now you have to get it right
Retail and logistic/ Play

Key trends:
- E-commerce
- Technology-driven enhancement of customers experience
- Drones, 3-D Printing
2030 state:
- Shopping centers as multi-faced communities that embrace broader lifestyle needs of communities
- New asset class: urban consolidation hubs
With e-commerce we underestimate the extent to which the retail footprint will shrink. We are just phase of that
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