Foreign investors have made $14.4 billion worth of U.S. industrial real estate acquisitions in 2018, up 152 percent year over year due to several large entity-level deals and 29 percent above the average volume since 2015, according to CBRE Research and Real Capital Analytics.
Foreign investors accounted for 21 percent of total U.S. industrial real estate investment volume in 2018. Investment from Canadian and Chinese buyers reached an all-time high, accounting for 70 percent of last year’s total foreign investment in U.S. industrial real estate.
The top-three U.S. industrial markets for foreign investment were Los Angeles, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Chicago, with a combined $2.4 billion in 2018.
Separately, Los Angeles totaled $910.1 million in total sales price.
