Our insights from MIPIM 2024

This year, several members of our team descended on MIPIM, one of the most important events in the international real estate industry’s calendar. The exhibition/conference in Cannes brings together leading experts and principals from a wide range of bodies, including accountancy and legal firms, developers, estate agents, family offices, lenders, pension funds, and everything in between. It presents an opportunity to discuss key industry and economic trends as well as enhance our services for clients through meeting potential new partners to expand our network as well as providing a platform to promote our services’ benefits.

While real estate is an age-old business, with increasing numbers of people moving abroad, requiring cross-jurisdiction support, it is becoming increasingly fragmented and complex. This is true whether for purchasing or selling assets, constructing, improving and maintaining properties, renting, or repatriating funds from overseas subsidiaries and procurement.

Speaking to MIPIM’s participants, it has become very clear that providing stream-lined and cost-efficient solutions to complicated and often arduous administrative processes is crucial to the international real estate industry. And there is much to be gained in synergies for the sector - for example, the real estate industry has much to be gained through a single platform that automates workflow, improves communication between counterparties, securely manages payments preventing fraud risk, and ensures compliance and fast payment disbursements.

One area the real estate industry is particularly excited about is how prop tech and AI are revolutionising the sector. Our team met several prop tech firms where integration would be mutually beneficial - such as providing end-to-end payment rails; or trusted compliance and AML services. We are always seeking to grow our partnerships with other core players who are integral to the purchase, sell or rental process - including legal, tax and accountancy experts across multi-jurisdictions; giving us the opportunity to offer streamlined workflows and market leading payments capabilities across all aspects of real estate and enabling our clients to focus on their business.

MIPIM was a great opportunity to grow and enhance our network of 15,000 partners. By continuing to develop and invest in our partnerships ensures our customers benefit from the technology and software to provide as seamless and easy experience in their transactions as possible. It’s already an incredibly lively year across the real estate industry and with the right connections, we want to make the entire end-to-end process as frictionless as possible.

MIPIM was just the first in our line-up of international conferences this year – we’ll be out and about at other events across the globe so do get in touch if you’d like to find out more