PROPERTYGURU Group (PGRU) said real estate and technology sectors must practice responsibility as sustainability becomes a main factor for the sector.
During the PropertyGuru Asia Real Estate Summit, the focus is on the real estate and tech sectors to move forward as they emerge from the pandemic era and continue reckoning with climate realities.
“It is our ambition to bring transparency within the real estate journey and create a trust platform for home seekers and our business partners,” Hari Krishna, PGRU chief executive officer and managing director, remarked.
Jeremy Williams, PGRU managing director for marketplaces, said the goals for the PropertyGuru Asia Real Estate Summit have remained constant, which is to educate, innovate and inspire.
“Our theme this year is adaptive reinvention. We will focus on how our cities, communities and built environments can adapt to changes and how we, the inhabitants and developers of these environments, can use best practices and lessons from the past to build the communities of tomorrow,” Williams remarked.
The 8th PropertyGuru Asia Real Estate Summit was thematically divided into four segments: restart/rebound; revive/reboot; rethink/reset; and reimagine/reinvent.
The program opened with a call to action on urban change from Stephen Oehme, managing director of Quantum Thailand Ltd. and a former board member of Burj Khalifa Dubai.
The first segment of the program also included a keynote on sustainability by Erastus Njuke Ndugire, program manager for the City Investment Facility at the United Nations Human Settlement Program and a keynote on the state of Asia’s current macroeconomy by Syetarn Hansakul, Asia analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The second segment of the summit included a keynote on financing instruments and climate investments in property businesses by Kim-See Lim, regional director of East Asia and the Pacific at the International Finance Corp./The World Bank Group, as well as a keynote on humanitarian tech by Illac Diaz, founder of Liter of Light Foundation and winner of PropertyGuru’s Visionary of the Year award in 2020.
