Alternatives set to outperform in United Kingdom

Alternatives accounted for more than £16.3 billion ($20.9 billion) of transactions in 2018, a further increase from 2017, £15.7 billion ($20.1 billion), according to the respondents to JLL’s U.K. alternative investors survey.

The outlook for 2019, both politically and economically, is uncertain. The fast moving and constantly changing nature of events in the run up to the United Kingdom’s proposed departure from the European Union can still yield several different outcomes, each of which will have a differing impact on alternatives and the wider commercial property market.

Alternatives are now an established part of the real estate market in the United Kingdom.

In total, JLL’s survey respondents have over £61.5 billion ($78.75 billion) of alternatives asset