RealVantage Secures Hong Kong SFC Type 1 License, Strengthening Its Presence in Asia’s Leading Financial Hubs

Strategic expansion broadens access to global private real estate investment opportunities for Hong Kong’s professional investors, family offices and wealth managers

RealVantage (“the Group”), a Singapore-headquartered private real estate investment platform, today announced that its Hong Kong subsidiary, RV HK Limited, has received a Type 1 (Dealing in Securities) licence (CE No. BXH385) from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in September 2026.

The licence marks an important milestone in the Group’s regional expansion and establishes a regulated presence in Singapore and Hong Kong, two of Asia’s major financial and wealth management centres. Under its licence conditions, RV HK Limited may deal in collective investment schemes and provide services to professional investors only.

Founded in Singapore in 2019, RealVantage has executed 171 real estate investments, of which 54 have been fully realised. The Group combines investment expertise, an established network of real estate partners and proprietary technology to connect investors with private real estate opportunities across developed global markets.

Hong Kong will serve as a strategic base for the Group to strengthen relationships with family offices, external asset managers, private wealth intermediaries and other professional investors, while expanding its regional distribution capabilities.

“Hong Kong is a natural next step in RealVantage’s regional expansion. As one of Asia’s leading wealth management centres, it has a sophisticated investor base looking for diversification and access to global private markets,” said Keith Ong, Co-founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of RealVantage. “Our ambition is to build a leading private real estate investment platform in Asia, bringing together institutional investment discipline, carefully selected opportunities and technology-driven accessibility. A regulated presence in Hong Kong is an important part of that strategy.”

Building a stronger regional investment platform
Through RV HK Limited, eligible professional investors in Hong Kong will be able to access collective investment schemes investing in private real estate, subject to the applicable offering terms and regulatory requirements. RealVantage Group will continue to undertake investment sourcing, due diligence, structuring and asset management, while RV HK Limited focuses on its licensed distribution activities and investor relationships in Hong Kong.

RealVantage’s wider platform provides access to different investment approaches, including real estate debt and equity, through deal-by-deal opportunities and professionally managed investment structures. Its investment focus spans sectors such as logistics, living, hospitality, data centres and other selected property strategies, with a disciplined approach to underwriting and risk management.

The Group believes that Hong Kong’s depth of private wealth, mature financial services ecosystem and connections to regional and international capital make it a logical market for long-term development. The expansion builds on RealVantage’s existing investment and operational foundations rather than establishing an entirely new investment capability.

“Our priority is to build enduring relationships with Hong Kong’s professional investor community, backed by a strong compliance culture and a clear understanding of investor needs,” said Ivan Ho, Chief Executive Officer of RealVantage HK Limited. “We will draw on the Group’s investment experience and technology infrastructure while maintaining the regulatory standards expected of a licensed Hong Kong intermediary.”

Focused on governance and long-term relationships
RealVantage’s investment process includes investment committee oversight, due diligence and monitoring through the lifecycle of each investment. In Hong Kong, RV HK Limited is subject to the SFC’s ongoing regulatory requirements, including applicable conduct, compliance, anti-money laundering and professional investor verification obligations.

The Hong Kong team brings experience across real estate investment, banking, capital markets and regulated financial services. Looking ahead, the Group intends to deepen its engagement with family offices, private banks, external asset managers and other professional intermediaries as it develops its Hong Kong business.

“We view Hong Kong as a long-term strategic market,” added Ong. “Our focus is not simply on expanding distribution, but on developing trusted partnerships and enabling professional investors to build more diversified exposure to global private real estate.”

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EDITOR’S NOTES

Corporate Biography
RV SG Pte. Ltd., doing business as RealVantage Group (“the Group”), is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Capital Markets Services licence no. 101156). Founded and headquartered in Singapore, it is one of Asia-Pacific’s leading and fastest-growing online real estate investment platforms.

The Group entered Hong Kong in January 2026 as a key step in its regional expansion. In September 2026, its subsidiary RV HK Limited, wholly owned by RealVantage HK Limited, received an SFC Type 1 (Dealing in Securities) licence (CE No. BXH385) to distribute institutional-grade real estate opportunities in Hong Kong.

A real estate specialist offering only real estate-centric products, the Group pairs institutional discipline with a data-driven, accessible approach. Investors get direct access to global institutional-grade deals across developed markets, property types and strategies.

Keith Ong and Foo Mao Ching, former C-suite investment management and technology executives, co-founded the Group in April 2019. Its investment and advisory committees include senior leaders from ARA Asset Management, Ascendas - Korea and Japan, GIC Real Estate, JPMorgan, Keppel REIT Management, Lendlease Global Commercial Trust Management, Sasseur REIT and Standard Chartered Bank.

The Group provides capital market solutions to operating partners such as Greystar, ESR Kendall Square and Investcorp, raising funds through stretched senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity. Members have co-invested alongside PIMCO, BentallGreenOak, PGIM and Schroders in deals across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, the UK and the US, with more developed markets to come.

Its investors include family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and accredited, professional and mass affluent investors, most of whom invest repeatedly across multiple deals. In June 2024, the Group closed its first discretionary real estate fund with primary fund manager Paragon Capital Management Singapore Pte Ltd.

The Group also advises corporate investors. Its deals span residential, multi-family, hospitality, office, retail, medical, logistics and industrial sectors. Investors can blend lower-risk secured debt with higher-return development deals to target both recurring income and capital gains. Its proprietary technology supports a seamless end-to-end journey, from onboarding to investment and divestment, with periodic property updates and portfolio reports.

Image caption from left to right: Ronald Chiu – director and board member of RealVantage HK Limited, Edmund Ho – investment committee member and executive director of RV HK Limited, Julian Tse – director of strategic engagement of RV HK Limited, Dennis Chan – director of finance and compliance of RV HK Limited and Ivan Ho – chief executive officer of RealVantage HK Limited
Image credit: RV HK Limited

THE GROUP’S PROVEN TRACK RECORD

Awards and Accolades

Awards and Accolades

2025

• Exceptional Homegrown Singapore Company - Financial Services Cluster
  SBR National Business Awards 2025

2024

• Business Innovation Award
  Robb Report Singapore Gala 2024

2023

• Most Innovative Real Estate Co-Investment Platform - APAC
  APAC Insider, Singapore Business Awards
• Best Real Estate Co-Investment Platform 2023 - Singapore
  APAC Insider, Singapore East Asia Business Awards
• Best Investment Technology Company Singapore 2023
  Finance Derivative
• Most Innovative Real Estate Investment Platform - Singapore
  Global Business Outlook, Finance Awards 2023

2022

• Investment Tech of the Year
  Asia Fintech Awards 2022
• Fastest Growing Real Estate Investment Firm - Singapore
  Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Award 2022
• Best New Real Estate Co-Investment Platform - Singapore
  Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Award 2022
• Most Innovative Real Estate Co-Investment Company Singapore 2022
  Finance Derivative
• Most Innovative Real Estate Co-Investment Company Singapore 2022
  World Economic Magazine

2021

• Best Online Real Estate Investment Platform 2021
  APAC Insider, South East Asia Business Awards
• Most Innovative Real Estate Co-Investment Platform: RealVantage
  APAC Insider, Singapore Business Awards
• Fastest Growing Real Estate Investment Firm - Singapore
  Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Award 2021
• Most Innovative Co-Investment Platform - Singapore
  Cosmopolitan The Daily Business Award 2021
• Most Innovative New Real Estate Investment Company - Singapore 2021
  Global Business Outlook, Real Estate Awards 2021
• Most Innovative Co-Investing Platform Southeast Asia 2021 - Real Estate
  Global Business Review Magazine Awards 2021
• Best Real Estate Co-Investment Platform - Southeast Asia
  Wealth & Finance, FinTech Awards 2021

2020

• Most Innovative Startup of the Year - Consumer Service Industries
  Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, Silver Stevie Award
• Most Innovative Tech Startup of the Year - Services
  Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, Bronze Stevie Award
• Best New Co-Investment Platform 2020
  Global Brands Magazine Awards

LEADERSHIP

Keith Ong, co-founder and group chief executive officer, RealVantage Group

Keith Ong (“Keith”) is the co-founder and group chief executive officer of RealVantage Group, the region’s fastest-growing real estate co-investment platform that enables investors access to global investment opportunities across different sectors. Keith directs all facets of the investment and asset management chain, business development and capital-raising activities. An industry veteran with over 20 years’ experience in investment and asset management, Keith has transacted in excess of US$3 billion across geographies, sectors and the entire real estate investment spectrum.

Prior to co-founding RealVantage Group, Keith was director of investment management and capital transactions at Firmus Capital for over four years. In 2015, Keith held the position of director for investments at Rockworth Capital Partners for two-and-a-half years. Earlier roles included assistant director of investments for ARA Asset Management for nearly 10 years, senior assistant director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore, and principal analyst at JTC Corporation.

Keith is a graduate of the University of Cambridge with a Master of Philosophy in Land Economy and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in real estate from the National University of Singapore. Keith is married with two kids. His wife is also in the real estate business and works as assistant general manager with a local developer. In his spare time, Keith plays tennis and is a believer in sustainable investing, egalitarianism and Keynesian economics. Keith is an ardent oenophile and avid chef.

Thought leadership: Keith is an active spokesperson and contributing author; and speaks on a variety of topical issues including wealth creation, real estate, private equity, investing, asset and fund management, fractional ownership across asset classes and territories, investment modelling and strategy, financial technology and wealthtech, government and policy, regulatory matters and leadership.

For a full read, visit https://www.realvantage.co/our-team and https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-ong-50489935/

Foo Mao Ching, co-founder and chief operating officer, RealVantage Group
Foo Mao Ching (“Mao”) is the co-founder and chief operating officer of RealVantage Group, the region’s fastest-growing real estate co-investment platform that enables investors access to global investment opportunities across different sectors. Mao oversees the technology, data science and operational aspects of RealVantage. Mao is a seasoned practitioner with over 18 years’ experience in technology and data science. A veteran in quantitative trading, Mao has traded over US$10 billion in global equity markets through automated algorithms.

Prior to co-founding RealVantage Group, Mao was chief technology officer and chief data scientist at Funding Societies/Modalku for nearly three years - where he led and grew the technology and data teams to scale the platform for users. In 2016, Mao founded QVantage, a startup empowering equity traders to make smarter decisions using professional quantitative insights. Mao also served as chief data scientist for Paktor - a technology startup with a presence in eight countries across the region and over five million platform users. In this role, Mao set up the company’s data science infrastructure and pipelines - built up a team of data engineers, analysts and scientists; and conducted various studies and modelling to advance product and marketing metrics lift.

Mao kicked off his illustrious career as a quantitative equities trader and portfolio manager with Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco and subsequently, at Ronin Capital - a proprietary trading firm in Chicago. Mao oversaw all aspects of market-neutral quantitative equities for a long-short global portfolio. This included researching alpha signals, constructing country-specific Barra-type daily risk models, automatic sub-hourly portfolio optimisations, automatic trade-execution algorithms and T-Cost analysis. Trade executions were conducted through a Java OMS with FIX connectivity to DMA destinations.

Mao has authored long-form papers to top-ranked journals, refereed conference proceedings and book chapters. Mao is a strong believer in building technology ecosystems and is an angel investor and mentor to several startups in the region. Mao is a graduate of Stanford University with a Master of Science in Management Science and Engineering. Mao holds a Bachelor of Computing with First Class Honours in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore.

Discover more at https://www.realvantage.co/our-team and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mao-ching-foo/

REALVANTAGE GROUP INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Every deal is vetted by industry experts; delivering on a transparent and detailed assessment of every deal for the prospective investor.

• Ng Beng Tiong (“BT”) is chairman of RealVantage Group. Previously deputy group chief executive officer and group chief operating officer of ARA Asset Management, BT was board member and finance director of Low Keng Huat, head of Stone Forest M&A and vice president of DBS Bank. BT is also an independent director of various SGX-listed companies.

• Anthony Ang Meng Huat (“Anthony”) was chief executive officer of Sasseur REIT, Fortune REIT and ARA’s flagship US$1.3 billion Asia Dragon Fund. Anthony has held senior positions at GIC Real Estate, Vertex Management and the Singapore Economic Development Board.

• Christopher Marriott (“Christopher”) is chief executive officer of Savills - Southeast Asia and board director of Savills - Asia Pacific. Christopher was previously managing director of Savills - Singapore, deputy managing director of Savills - Hong Kong, partner at Brooke Hillier Parker - Asia Pacific, and chartered surveyor at Hillier Parker - United Kingdom.

• Ng Hsueh Ling’s impressive resume slate include having been Asia-Pacific head of Savills Investment Management, chairman of Lendlease Global Commercial Trust Management Pte Ltd, managing director and country head of Lendlease Singapore, chief investment officer (Asia) of Lendlease, chief executive officer of Keppel REIT Management and chief executive officer of Ascendas - Korea and Japan.

• Richard Tan Liat Chew previously held senior finance roles in Suntec REIT, Sasseur REIT and ARA Private Funds; as well as Hewlett Packard and Schroders.

• Edmund Ho (“Edmund”) has had executive leadership stints at Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank, JPMorgan and Jardine Fleming. Edmund’s experience underscores his ability to navigate complex financial transactions, deliver tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of his clients and identify risks and mitigants.

REALVANTAGE GROUP ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER

Chew Sutat (“Sutat”) is the chairman of Shan De Advisors. Sutat was formerly the senior managing director of Singapore Exchange (“SGX”) where he led SGX's equity and debt capital market teams in developing private-to-public capital-raising solutions for companies. Prior to SGX, Sutat held executive positions with Standard Chartered Bank, OCBC Securities and DBS Bank.

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DISCLAIMER

Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that any investment, strategy or product referenced directly or indirectly in this communication will be profitable, match its historical performance, or be suitable for your portfolio. Due to changing market conditions and other factors, the content may no longer reflect current opinions or positions.

This communication is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any investment, nor financial or investment advice, and should not be relied upon as a substitute for personalised advice from RealVantage. Readers with questions about how any matter discussed here applies to their individual circumstances should consult their own financial adviser, accountant and/or lawyer before making any financial or real estate investment.

Licence conditions of RV HK Limited (HK SFC licence CE No. BXH385): The licensee shall only provide services to professional investors. The term “professional investor” is as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance and its subsidiary legislation. For SFC Type 1 regulated activity, the licensee shall only carry on the business of dealing in collective investment schemes. The terms “collective investment scheme” and “dealing” are as defined under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

This communication has not been reviewed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore or the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

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About RealVantage

RealVantage (operating as RV SG Pte. Ltd. in Singapore) is a leading real estate co-investment platform, licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), that allows our investors to diversify across markets, overseas properties, sectors and investment strategies.

The RealVantage team comprises professionals across real estate, corporate finance, technology, venture capital, and startup growth. The platform combines institutional deal sourcing with structured underwriting and portfolio diversification capabilities. The team is led by a distinguished Board of Advisors and advisory committee who provide cross-functional and multi-disciplinary expertise to the RealVantage team.

The company's philosophy, core values, and technological edge help clients build a diversified and high-performing real estate investment portfolio.

Get in touch with RealVantage today to see how they can help you in your real estate investment journey.

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