In this blog series, I will talk about the technological aspects of investing in the real estate sector.
We are currently in a very interesting time in the real estate investment space. Technological changes have been occurring, and they continue to change the way investors think about investing. As the digital revolution progresses, so does the need for a more sophisticated investment approach. In my own experience, I’ve observed that investors are going to be more reluctant to invest in certain assets based on the technical difficulties involved in investing in those assets.
The big question is how much can technology change the way investment professionals think about their own investment. The truth is that the technology-based investing revolution is currently relatively new, and it is not clear that it will be enough to impact the way investors think about investing. For instance, investing in real estate in a digital world has never been easier. Because the market is so global, it is easy to exchange one asset for another, but this has never been easier when the markets are global.
That’s a huge change, and in the first half of 2011, I believe we all saw the beginning of the beginning. The market was so crowded that it was almost impossible to find an appropriate investment. The only alternative was to look further afield, and this was a huge mistake. I can think of many reasons why this was a mistake. For one, the markets are global.
The reality is that most of the investments that we make are very local, and therefore not very global. They don’t have the same depth of detail as global markets. We’re often forced to choose between investing in things we don’t know very well, or buying things we do know well.
This makes it even more important to invest in the right way. I believe that the smartest way to make money is to put money in the stock market. Because you know its going up, and you know the risks. And you know that if you lose you’re going to make money, and you can take the loss, and you dont have to worry about the market.
I mean, we dont even HAVE to believe that the market is going up. Thats not what we’re investing in. We’re investing in people. I mean, if youre a financial advisor, most of them dont even have to have a lot of experience in the investment world to give you money. But the point is that if you know the markets, and you know the right way to invest, you can be making a ton of money.
Technology in investment management is like investing in the right stocks. Some people in the industry are just a bunch of old guys. Many of those old guys have good ideas but no one has proven that they know what theyre doing. So the industry is trying to change the way they invest. Thats why we need smarter people to get the industry started. It will take a lot of time and effort, but it can be done.
There are a lot of reasons that investing is broken today. But I think the most important one is that most people in the industry don’t really understand what they are doing. To make investing more efficient and more efficient, the industry needs more smart people to get the industry started.