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Uncertainty among current homeowners and prospective buyers is at a three-year high, with 60 percent saying they can't tell whether now is a good time to buy a home or not, compared to 48 percent two years ago, according to the latest Bank of America Homebuyer Insights Report.

Despite substantial visitor numbers, Hong Kong’s hotel sector has been characterized by improving occupancy but falling average rates, as most overnight visitors adopt a more conservative approach to spending, according to Colliers.

Brian Lerman, a partner in Goodwin’s real estate industry practice, recently shared insights on how institutional investors are navigating the challenges posed by today’s interest rate environment, which is driving more cautious and strategic behavior among investors. He discussed how this uncertainty is affecting deal pricing, due diligence and financing strategies, noting a shift toward securing financing commitments earlier in the transaction process. Lerman also explored how repricing dynamics vary based on asset quality and outlines the proactive steps investors are taking in anticipation of upcoming loan maturities.

Savills says that it is anticipating an uptick in investment in retail real estate globally as in some locations retailers are again expanding their store networks, ​leading to​​ the return of rental growth across a number of prime retail markets driving investor interest. 

Despite an expected doubling of Asia Pacific data center supply in the next three years, there will still be a shortage of 15 – 25 gigawatts by 2028, due to insufficient power supply and a lack of AI-ready data centers, according to CBRE’s latest research report.

Capital continues to target hospitality assets in high liquidity markets in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region as the sector moves from recovery to stabilization in 2025, according to Colliers.

GRAI 1/2025 confirms the positive trend in the first quarter 2025. The EU-15 Index, compiled by Union Investment and GfK, reached a new high of 115 points, reporting further growth in seven European countries. Trade tariffs and weakening GDP growth may have a temporary negative impact on trade, however.

The global commercial real estate outlook remains broadly positive, though somewhat tempered by the impact of rising tariffs, according to BGO’s outlook.

Inbound travel to the United States remains under pressure. Sentiment-related headwinds persist, leading to a forecasted 8.7 percent decline in international arrivals this year, according to Oxford Economics and Tourism Economics.

The top eight markets with more than 500,000 tech talent workers are all in the Asia Pacific region, according to CBRE in its Global Tech Talent Guidebook 2025.

Amid recent tariff announcements and the threat of major disruptions in the supply chain, businesses are taking a hard look at their U.S. presence. Christopher Lloyd, who leads McGuireWoods Consulting’s Infrastructure and Economic Development team, shares his perspective on how the tariff battle might impact manufacturing development. Lloyd specializes in site selection and economic development incentives negotiations at McGuireWoods Consulting.

Nearly three in four respondents to a new Colliers and CoreNet Global survey expect AI to have a transformative or significant impact on the corporate real estate industry moving forward. 

Take-up of data center capacity in Europe is set to grow at its fastest rate in four years in 2025, despite a shortage of available space, according to new research from CBRE.

CBRE has released its Q1 2025 Asia Pacific Cap Rate Survey.

Investment from both domestic and overseas investors slowed in the first quarter, as the impact of geopolitical uncertainty meant a more muted start to the year than might have been expected after a buoyant end to 2024, wrote Tom Leahy, MSCI’s head of real assets research, EMEA, in a recent report exploring how geopolitical uncertainty and trade tariff tensions interrupted the recovery in global real estate markets in the first quarter.

In the United States and Canada, there are multiple factors reshaping business investment assumptions currently: policy shifts in trade, immigration, and federal spending are creating short-term impacts that companies must balance against long-term needs while competing for limited high-quality space and little new product, according to JLL’s U.S. and Canada Office Fit-out Cost Guide.

Hines has released a new paper titled Class Act: Redefining Student Living in Europe, which highlights the sector’s rapidly growing appeal to international investors. 

U.S. home prices ticked down 0.1 percent in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, the first month-over-month decline since September 2022, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.

Newly released figures from CoStar show average U.K. office yields fell sharply in the first quarter of 2025, tempting more investors to allocate capital into the sector.

Although the current economic environment is proving challenging for most real estate asset classes, this supply/demand imbalance will likely put upward pressure on rental rates for well-located, modernized logistics assets as online consumption continues to penetrate the market, according to Cabot Properties.