Premium Australian office is still an attractive place to invest despite lingering impacts from the pandemic and more recent concerns around rising inflation and interest rates. Within the sector, however, more attention is rightly being paid to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, particularly amid the transition to net zero.

Although the Asia Pacific region’s REITs were not spared the unprecedented impact of the pandemic, the sector has recovered from its trough, with valuations gradually retraced to pre-pandemic levels. In the wake of the crisis, however, mergers and acquisitions of the region’s REITs have accelerated.

With rising geopolitical tensions, global growth slowed by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, a virtual roundtable with institutional investors and investment managers was held on 6 July by Institutional Real Estate, Inc on the outlook for real estate investing in China and Hong Kong.

Qualitas has secured commitments from a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for a new fully discretionary mandate to invest A$700 million (US$491 million) in Australian commercial real estate (CRE) private credit opportunities on behalf of a new investment vehicle.

China has plans to launch a 300 billion yuan (US$44 billion) real estate fund to help property developers amid the current debt crisis, a state bank official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.