Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay has retained its crown as the world’s most expensive shopping street, followed by New York’s Upper 5th Avenue and London’s New Bond Street, according to new data from Cushman & Wakefield.

Investors have adopted an increasingly diverse set of strategies to commercial property investment, ensuring global investment volumes have remained above the previous peak of end-2007 for the sixth year in a row, reaching more than $1.7 trillion on an annual rolling basis, a situation likely to continue into 2020, according to Colliers International in its latest Capital Flows Research at international property and investment trade fair, EXPO REAL.

As concerns about geopolitics, demographics and climate change rise, the attention of citizens, businesses, investors and policymakers is turning toward the broader set of issues that cities face, according to JLL’s Demand and Disruption in Global Cities 2019 report.

Although 2019 full-year global investment volumes are unlikely to reach the same levels seen in 2018 ($1.8 trillion), concludes Savills, it is not unimaginable that real estate volumes could be in line with those reached in 2017 ($1.7 trillion) despite heightened macroeconomic uncertainty.

Atlas Residential will deploy $1 billion through its affiliate Atlas Residential Holdings to establish the first global multifamily apartment portfolio via its discretionary private opportunity fund.

International tourist arrivals grew 5 percent in 2018, to reach the 1.4 billion mark.

With the longest global economic expansion on record, international investors face an increasingly complex calculus in identifying cost-effective opportunities for potential downturn protection, slowing the pace of cross-border capital flows to and from the United States, according to CBRE.

Global real estate investments slowed in the first half of the year, according to a new report by JLL Global Capital Markets.

The size of the professionally managed global real estate investment market rose by 4.7 percent from $8.5 trillion in 2017 to $8.9 trillion in 2018, according to a report from MSCI.

Manulife Investment Management has released its biannual global intelligence report, a midyear update across asset classes highlighting six investment themes for the second half of 2019.