EDITORIAL VIEW
Welcome to the new digital era of real estate - time to leverage technology to your advantage
When Real Estate Investor ( REI )
embarked on our initial real estate investment education journey in 2007 to help investors invest smarter , we never predicted such disruption in the market in the near future . We never anticipated how the rapid growth of technology integrated into our lives would also start impacting the real estate world quickly and efficiently .
At REI we are continually evaluating what we are offering investors , the industry and property professionals and constantly searching for how we can do things better and reinvent ourselves . We are excited at the prospects of sharing the best new digital innovations with you on our platform and virtual events going forward as we evolve . Software and technology programmes using virtual reality ( VR ), augmented reality ( AR ), artificial intelligence ( AI ) is streamlining property processes making transactions and property management more efficient .
Our monthly REI webinars have become a big hit with our audience . Our ‘ PropTech ’ Ultimate Property Management Masterclass sponsored by WeconnectU
( property management software company ) who are solving property managements biggest issues topped 2000 registrations and attracted over 1100 live attendees . Over two days we had 10 property experts in their field sharing their insights and knowledge on advanced property management solutions mostly using technology .
This is record attendance for a single event from when we first embarked fulltime on our educational webinars during hard lockdown in April 2020 . This is testimony for the broad appetite for more technology-based solutions to better aid investors and property professionals . In case you missed our Ultimate Property Management Masterclass here are the virtual replays .
This month REImag ’ s front cover is graced with Elon Musk , our proudly born and raised South African billionaire technopreneur . He is the epitome of success in this field , where he first made his money selling Zip2 to found X . com online payments company , which later became PayPal - which was acquired by
2 MARCH 2021 SA Real Estate Investor Magazine