Andrew Baum Keynote Speaker

UK PropTech Association Special Achievement Award (2019)
International Real Estate Society Achievement Award (2020)
Author/co-author of textbooks selling 60,000+ copies

Andrew Baum's Biography

Professor Andrew Baum is one of the world’s best-known voices on real estate investment and the technologies reshaping the built environment. An Emeritus Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, he brings rare credibility across academia, capital markets and boardrooms translating complex change into clear decisions for investors, developers and occupiers alike.

Andrew led Oxford’s teaching activity in real estate (2009–2021) and in 2017 established the Oxford Future of Real Estate Initiative, an industry-supported research programme focused on how innovation and technology will transform the sector. He continues to teach and shape executive audiences, including as Faculty Lead for Oxford’s Real Estate elective taking place 15–19 June 2026.

Alongside his academic work, he is Chairman of Newcore Capital Management and a Research and Strategy Partner for Pi Labs, advising investment leaders and PropTech founders on strategy, governance and growth. His research has anticipated many of the shifts now underway from automated valuations and tokenisation to the changing economics of real estate investment management, including new work published in 2024 and 2025.

Andrew’s ground-breaking report PropTech 3.0: The Future of Real Estate was the most downloaded Oxford Saïd report in 2017 and helped define a global conversation about the future of the industry. He is the author or co-author of multiple leading texts, including Real Estate Investment: A Strategic Approach (4th edition, 2023), as well as updated editions of Real Estate Investment: Strategies, Structures, Decisions (January 2021) and Property Investment Appraisal (January 2021).

PropTech, AI and the future of real estate markets

Real estate investment strategy, pricing and portfolio construction

Valuation, debt and interest rates: navigating the next cycle

Tokenisation and the future of transactions and ownership

The property company of the future: operating models and innovation

He launched Oxford’s Future of Real Estate Initiative in 2017, giving leaders a rigorous view of how innovation will reshape real estate markets.
He combines Oxford research with board-level investment insight as Chairman of Newcore Capital Management, helping organisations link strategy to cycles, pricing and capital allocation.
He brings a front-row perspective on PropTech adoption as Research and Strategy Partner at Pi Labs, translating what is emerging into practical implications for investors, developers and occupiers.
He is recognised for shaping the sector’s technology agenda, winning the UK PropTech Association Special Achievement Award (2019) and an International Real Estate Society Achievement Award (2020).
He turns complex topics like valuation, funds and digitisation into clear frameworks through widely used books and research, enabling audiences to stress-test decisions and act with confidence.