About half of global fund managers, investors and other real estate industry professionals believe logistics will be the best real estate asset class for investment in China during the next 12 months, according to a poll of delegates at the annual conference of the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV), held in Beijing in October. The conference saw 300 attendees, many of whom represent the world’s largest real estate investors, managers and service providers.
According to the survey, preference for the logistics sector far exceeds the appetite for other asset classes in the country, with 25 percent of the delegates naming offices as the most attractive, followed by 12.5 percent who voted for residential properties for lease, with 6.2 percent choosing residential properties for sale and 6.2 percent opting for retail real estate.
A majority of real estate professionals also believe China will generate the highest level of total ret
