Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa Real Estate Investor Magazine - October 2017 | Page 49

OFFSHORE 48 Affordable housing is an ever-growing invest- ment market. Explore your options in Atlanta, U.S. and learn more about an already estab- lished programme. 54 Bitcoin has taken the market by storm. We investigate the true longevity of crypto-cur- rency, and find out if it’s a passing trend. RAN NEU-NER Co-Founder of the Creative Counsel “The Bitcoin isn’t important. The piece of tech that’s important is the block- chain that gets tech around the world to become a super computer to transfer money to store contracts or whatever else” ANTHONY LEWIS Head of investor services for JLL Sub-Saharan Africa NICHOLAS HOLT Head of research for Asia Pacific at Knight Frank “In the sub-Saharan Africa context, developers such as Africa Logistics Properties (ALP) are pioneering the idea that prime industrial portfolios can be successfully developed on the continent through its major develop- ments in Nairobi, with plans to expand to other major logistics hubs in Africa.” “In Hong Kong, strong demand and a lack of new land supply continues to push values higher, while the structure of the Mumbai office market has tend- ed to see office markets develop out- wards rather than upwards.”  SA Real Estate Investor Magazine OCTOBER 2017 47