Interactive polls provided some ideas on market trends

AS many as four interactive polls were conducted during the Future Forward event to find out what the participants’ views were on several topics.

The first question posed for the on-the-spot voting activity was “Do you think millennials will want to buy or rent?”. The results were that some 53% thought that millennials would rather rent than buy or own their own homes while 47% said Gen-Ys will continue to buy their own homes in the future.

Participants were also asked “What is the one word that resonates with real estate trends for the future?”, and the most popular answers were “innovation”, “security”, “connectivity”, “comfort” and “technology”.

During the afternoon session, participants were asked to choose one word which described the type of community space which they needed more of. The majority answered “parks”, “nature”, “interactive” and “freedom”. Besides these, there were other interesting answers, such as “gender neutral toilets”, “farmers market”, “community farm” and “open kitchen”.

Before the forum ended, the organiser asked participants to state in one word what topic they would want the next Future Forward forum to focus on. Among the answers were “affordability”, “retirement” and “sustainability”.

This story first appeared in TheEdgeProperty.com pullout on Oct 7, 2016, which comes with The Edge Financial Daily every Friday. Download TheEdgeProperty.com pullout here for free.