Expanding life sciences industry creates opportunity for real estate investors

The life sciences property sector has flourished during the past few years and that trend is expected to continue in the near term and well into the future, according to a report by Institutional Real Estate, Inc. titled Expanding life sciences industry creates opportunity for real estate investors. The sector’s positive property fundamentals have been fueled by record-setting life sciences industry capital infusions, creating growth and additional demand for office, R&D, lab space and other related facilities.

Investors are increasingly recognizing the benefits — strong property-level fundamentals, portfolio diversification, value-add opportunities — of investing in life sciences properties in well-established and emerging clusters across the United States.

Despite the current social and economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the life sciences industry and property markets have shown relative strength. The sector performed well a de