🎙️ Ever wondered how AI is reshaping the real estate landscape? 🏡🤖 We're excited to unveil our latest podcast episode on the "Impact of AI on Real Estate". Watch the full episode here - Dive into a riveting discussion where we shed light on: 1️⃣ Evaluating the AI Effect - Unpacking the nuances and understanding how real estate professionals can eff…

The Built to Rent (BTR) model has emerged as a potential solution to the escalating challenge of global rental inflation. By retrofitting traditional rental properties to fit the BTR model, investors and property developers can unlock numerous benefits that promise to increase rental yields and provide a more sustainable rental market. However, thi…

Welcome to "Unveiling Global Rental Inflation," the insightful podcast hosted by Shan Elangovan, Global Marketing Director of Monk Tech Labs. Join us as we dive deep into the complexities of global rental inflation and gain valuable insights from Ajay Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO of Monk Tech Labs, as he sheds light on the various factors contributing t…

Listen to Angie Mahtaney, Business Mentor at Brigade REAP, on Monk Realty Show discussing how to build a successful Proptech business. Angie shares her insights on the various ways Proptech changes the real estate game and the opportunities it creates for stakeholders. Learn best practices, strategies and essential tips to launch and scale a succes…

Join us on the Monk Realty Show as we dive into a captivating conversation with Dr. Michael Waters MRICS, an esteemed Associate Professor in Real Estate at Heriot-Watt University, Dubai Campus In this episode, Dr. Waters shares his profound insights on three pivotal topics shaping the real estate industry today. 1. Learnings from Dubai: Discover wh…

“House as an object, it's been the same too long…Very soon, if you sit in an apartment without a digital ecosystem around it, people won’t even look at the apartment.”- Daniele Russolillo Most real estate developers take years to expand their business outside a city. After handing over the keys, "they don't want to hear from the resident again". Pl…

Formed in Dubai in 1985, Asteco is The Middle East’s largest full service real estate services company. We spoke to Morgan Dalton, Director at Asteco, who has been associated with Asteco since 2008. In this conversation, Morgan gives a wide-angle view of the UAE Property Market, state of sustainability, and why the future of PropTech is "more of th…

Muhammad Jawad, Manager for Property & Community Management at IMKAN Properties, joined us for the fifth episode of the Monk Realty Show. Having worked at names like WAFI Group, EMAAR, and RAK Properties, he comes with a diverse experience in UAE's real estate sector. As the first Certified Property Manager (CPM) ® from IREM®, he is a big believer …

Compared to other areas, why is real estate a laggard in adopting technology? Why are teams within these companies averse to trying out new products? And how should PropTech companies go about RFIs and RFPs? Eddie Holmes is the Co-founder of Unissu, a PropTech and ReTech marketplace which help buyers and sellers do business together more effectivel…

Every reflex action needs a spinal cord, be it in the human body or in Facilities Management. As a fitness fanatic and award-winning FM Advocate, Mohamad Abou Laban knows how a great FM culture is almost like the spinal cord. He joined us on Monk Realty Show and shared his insights on everything in FM - Highlights 1) Why is a system as strong as it…

I asked my ex-client, "Why don't you rent the house to me, because I want to run a social experiment.” He rented the house to me at SGD 5,000...Two weeks later, we achieved a rent of SGD 10,800. Three years later, here we are with 1200 rooms and counting. Eugene Lim, Episode 2 - Monk Realty Show In less than 4 years, The Assembly Place (TAP) has gr…

Decoding Community Management "Good community managers and property managers manage the expenses. They make sure that the expenses are under control. Great property and community managers also look at revenue." - Waqar Hasan In the world of Property Management, words like community and due diligence are used quite loosely. But what makes a great Co…

How to invest in student housing Sam Chor is the Director of UJ Hostels, Malaysia's largest Student Housing chain. He shares insights that every coliving and community living operator needs to learn to nurture the warmth and positivity that UJ hostels is fostering in every facility.By Monk Tech Labs

UX for space design How you organize and align a space sends out psychological cues that can be hard to put a finger on, but significantly impact the user experience. Just like an app needs proper UX, so does any space meant for hospitality. Rental Operators can create an effortless and appealing experience for tenants that can be much more invitin…

Rethinking Coliving Alfonso Medina is CEO of Madelon, one of Brooklyn, NYC's coolest Real Estate Development services. Alfonso explains what he learned from starting his own venture, and how to power up and launch your own coliving space with super-strong impactBy Monk Tech Labs

In the second episode of The Monk Realty Show, we explore the coliving scene in Europe. Luca, CEO of Habyt- the premier coliving operator in Berlin, takes us through what it's like being in the game and answers how to expand across the region despite the many challenges. Coliving spaces are the latest accommodation experiment taking place in Europe…

In the inaugural episode of Monk Realty Show, Chetan Hatti speaks to the co-founders of MonkTechLabs, Ajay Kumar and Balaji Varadharajan. [0:42] - About TheHouseMonk [2:20] - Thoughts about the Asian market [4:25] - Average Coliving rent in US/Europe is 10x more compared to India. [5:19] - Number of operators, market value, tenants, expected growth…