Even before the onset of the COVID-19, real estate practitioners have been enthusiastically engaging with the waves of global developments, including the integrating of innovations in technology to benefit their built environment assets. Beyond technology-led changes, few professionals in the real estate sector have a view on 'their place in the Anthropocene'. Many of my colleagues though, have a much keener interest in when their tenants will pay their rentals!
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Jonathan Yach, MRICS
Jonathan is a 35 year real estate services and management veteran, with hand-on management experience in the complex markets of South /East African and India
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The purpose of this article to establish the need WHY, available operating models HOW, features WHAT of Professionally Managed Student Accommodation (PMSA). It also covers the current status of Student Housing (during the COVID period); and a suggested way ahead (post COVID-19) for PMSA.
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