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Two international experts—Pro-invest Group’s Sabine Schaffer and CBRE’s Stuart McCann—unpack the fundamentals and investment appeal behind co-living. Share these insights on co-living, which is attracting residents and capital, particularly in overseas markets:&nbsp;• Co-living fills a market gap between hotels and multifamily, and is distinguished by resident tenure, product mix and community social environment.• Co-living offers flexible, furnished units with strong appeal to working professionals and students.• Co-living assets can be an attractive investment, delivering stable income and occupancy as high as 95%+.• Conversions of offices and hotels can often be delivered more quickly and at lower costs than ground-up co-living development and produce better risk-adjusted returns.• Private equity is flowing into co-living and more institutional core capital may target the sector as it matures.• Urban affordability and demographic shifts are driving long-term demand, positioning co-living as a scalable residential solution.


Based in Singapore, he is responsible for facilitating cross-border real estate investments into the Pacific region. He also provides strategic advisory services, including capital raising and capital partnering services, for corporate and institutional investors in the Pacific and Southeast Asia regions.

Stuart has closed over AUD15 billion of direct real estate transactions across major asset classes and has been involved in bringing numerous new large sources of offshore capital entering the Australian market for the first time. Stuart has over 15 years of commercial real estate experience, with a strong focus on Australia.


Stuart McCann

Managing Director, Capital Advisors, Pacific & Southeast Asia, CBRE

Dr Sabine Schaffer is Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Pro-invest Group. Since the inception of the business, she has been instrumental in establishing Pro-invest as one of the leading integrated real estate platforms within Australia and Asia, covering all aspects of development, asset management and day-to-day operations. The Group currently manages in excess of 3 billion AuM across hospitality and commercial assets in the form of closed-end funds, managed accounts as well as co-investment programs. One of the biggest achievements is the positioning of Pro-invest as an ESG leader, proven by the fact that all the assets within the Pro-invest estate to date are achieving some of the highest environmental ratings (including the very first carbon-neutral hotel, according to NABERS ratings).

Sabine Schaffer, Ph.D.

Managing Partner, Pro-invest Group

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