Despite spending nearly three decades of his career in the real estate investment and management industry, Desmond Tang has yet to experience a dull day. That’s because the real estate industry has continued to prove its resilience amid disruptive trends. And Tang’s start-up experience – prior to leading Straits Real Estate (SRE), a wholly owned subsidiary of SGX-listed The Straits Trading Company – has come in handy. “Real estate is never boring,” said Tang, the Chief Executive Officer of SRE. “Despite its image as a traditional old-fashioned industry – a common parochial view – real estate is difficult to replace, even as economies evolve, and technology changes lives and businesses.” “People talk about modernising real estate, but the truth of matt