Asia Pacific real estate investment surges by 30 percent in first nine months of 2021

Asia Pacific real estate investment volumes continued to rebound strongly in the first nine months of 2021, up 30 percent compared with the same period in 2020. According to global real estate adviser JLL, Asia Pacific direct real estate transactions year-to-date reached $125 billion, just 6 percent below 2019 levels, as investors deployed capital into more income-resilient assets, such office and logistics sectors.

Analysis in JLL’s Capital Tracker Third Quarter 2021 showed that third quarter investment in Asia Pacific was $39.5 billion, a 10 percent increase year-on-year. However, tra