Yolande is a practice professor with 40 years experience in real estate, 33 researching property markets in industry before joining UCL as Chair of the Bartlett Real Estate Institute in 2018. As head of World Research at Savills, she took a global, cross-sector view of long run trends and future influences. She believes that a new, more accurate, understanding of all elements of real estate, at a global level, is essential for the effective use of AI and machine learning and an integral component of successful, future-proofed PropTech. Her work is deliberately unfocussed, looking at the combination and interaction of disruptive trends in demographics, finance, technology, society, the environment, and governments in changing global real estate. She believes that real estate, meaning land and everything attached to it, is at the heart of sustainability. Understanding real estate value in all its forms is therefore essential to solving the wicked problems and grand challenges of the 21st century. To this end, she sees as imperative the communication
