Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the institutional real estate community has taken steps to adapt, which can be seen in the responses to the annual investor survey jointly conducted by Institutional Real Estate, Inc. and Kingsley, a Grace Hill Co. The 25th annual investor survey, 2021 Institutional Investors Real Estate Trends, revealed the pandemic had an impact on real estate investment activity in 2020, though lesser than occurred during the global financial crisis.
“It’s amazing how the real estate industry has responded to unprecedented challenges and weathered the storm,” says Jim Woidat, executive vice president with Kingsley, who reviewed the results in a briefing for IREI sponsors in February.
In 2020, estimated capital flows to real estate by U.S. investors totaled $50 billion, a steep drop from the $75 billion that was invested in 2019, but much higher than the $18 billion that was invested in 2009.
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