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'Brilliant Basics' and high quality data in Commercial Real Estate

19 January 2022

How does the South African commercial real estate (CRE) market compare to the UK and other international markets? How can PropTech really deliver efficiency and productivity gains? How far will humans be disintermediated by technology usage in CRE? What is holding CRE back from data excellence? What do we mean by the ‘Brilliant Basics’?

William Harris speaks with Andrew Knight as they discuss the commercial real estate market in South Africa and the opportunity to use standardised, high-quality data.

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