Transcript
A (0:00)
Welcome back to the Real Estate Without Borders podcast. I'm joined here, as always, by the brilliant and worldly Cameron Hutchinson. Now we're going to be talking about. Well, what are we going to be talking about today? I got a couple articles I'm going to bring to the table.
B (0:13)
Yeah, I think what would be interesting and, you know, see what your insights are on it. I know it's probably a little bit outside of the standard of what you'll talk about, but are different flows in the real estate investment or international real estate investment world, where money's flowing into and different sides of it, outside of what a lot of people would think or what we've spoken about over the last couple episodes of, you know, secondary homes or apartments that you can invest into to Airbnb out as well as for personal use. And start looking at other interesting trends like AI data centers, green energy facilities and stuff along those lines and why you're seeing institutional funds flow to it. That's. Hopefully that'll be of interest for the listeners. Have you done much of that?
A (0:58)
A little bit. We like to talk about it from a news perspective because I think that paying attention to that stuff matters. It's almost like your smart money indicator. Where are the massive funds? Where are these global institutions putting their capital on a country basis, on an asset class basis, on a currency basis? So that I think is always interesting to pay attention to. Yeah, it doesn't give any direct practical advice for people who want to buy a house in a different country, but I think it gives enough of your macro and directional support for some people's thesis of if. Well, some of the articles that I have here, one is UBS just gated a 400 million euro property fund they have in Germany for up to three years. And then the other one is that a lot of the real estate bonds in Dubai, which we've been talking about, obviously in the conflict in the Middle East, a lot of those, the real estate bonds are sort of becoming distressed. Right.
B (1:57)
Or there have fallen off too. Right?
A (2:00)
Yeah, yeah. The stock, like most stocks are trading down. So understanding like that, that's. Those are pretty easy and intimate sentiment readers on what's happening in different markets. And you know, that can kind of guide your decision making moving forward as a. As a individual direct investor. We do have a lot of people who listen to the show that are larger institutions, global funds, et cetera. So we try and pay attention to all of those.
B (2:23)
Yeah, and we'll touch on it a little bit at the end. We spoke about it from an international standpoint, when you're talking about if the thesis is right and you know real estate is only another house or another apartment in a sunny spot or a ski spot in those luxury zones. If you've got a belief that one of the things we'll talk about is the demand for land for data centers and then kind of the subsidiary services from there areas where you can get good cooling technology to help cool off these data centers, good power, green energy power to help with stability. And when you see spikes in the oil market and stuff along those lines and there's, there's ways to get into it as call most fractional investor these days. So we can talk a little bit about that. So it's, it's still understanding that okay, these markets are growing and the logistics are. That's logistics space that's required for these international markets are growing and how can you invest in real estate as that being the tried and true part of your thesis in there while also leveraging economic terms so trends. There we go. Yeah. And still have that core thesis to kind of go around. So you know the, the gating side of it. I mean do you want to jump into that first and then I can sure. Spin off.
