For this episode of Own the World, Abhii Dabas sits down with Intric COO and co-founder James Puddle for an unfiltered conversation on one uncomfortable reality:

The global real estate system isn’t working the way people think it is.

After spending more than 20 years inside the industry building agencies, leading international expansion, and working with developers across Asia, Europe, and beyond, James has seen the same problems repeat over and over.

What we cover:

• Why running more events stopped working — and what changed
• The gap between what developers assume buyers want and what serious investors actually need
• Where trust breaks in a cross-border transaction (and why it usually happens after the sale, not before)
• What developers see on Monday morning with traditional tools — and what they should be seeing instead
• Why the real estate industry needs the equivalent of Stripe or Booking.com — and why it doesn't have it yet
• What it looks like in five years if Intric gets this right

In this conversation, Abhii and James unpack why traditional real estate models are struggling, what international buyers actually want, and why global property still lacks the infrastructure other industries already built.

They also go deep into the vision behind Intric and what it could take to create an operating system for global real estate.

Topics include:

• Why developers keep missing international buyers
• The 6–9 month education gap nobody talks about
• Why cross-border trust breaks down
• Why more technology hasn’t solved the problem
• What agencies and developers are still getting wrong
• Why real estate needs infrastructure—not more marketplaces
• How AI may reshape global property investing

If you invest, build, sell, or operate in real estate, this episode offers an inside look at where the industry is heading—and why the next decade may look very different from the last.

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