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Investors | Mar 1, 2022
The global COVID-19 pandemic has been a massive accelerant of change and transformation for all industries and workplaces. While some of these changes, such as the push toward a more tech-enabled and sustainable world, were a long time in the making, others, like evolving working habits, were greatly accelerated by the pandemic.
Single-family rental (SFR) homes promise to be a hot commodity in 2022. Investors have been mesmerized by the prospects and are banking on what some see as a groundbreaking shift away from the urban ambience of high-rise apartments to suburbia’s aura of open space and single-family dwellings.
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the real estate market, with capital shifting increasingly toward the residential and industrial sectors and away from office and retail. To remain flexible in this environment, Partners Group combines its thematic investment approach — targeting subsectors that benefit from transformative trends — with situational investing in opportunities that have a strong need for a solutions provider.
South Korean real estate asset sales prices have increased due to high liquidity and demand, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, national commercial real estate trading volume was KRW 21.5 trillion ($18.0 billion), an increase of approximately 75 percent (CAGR 12 percent) over the KRW 12.4 trillion ($10.3 billion) seen in 2016.
Compared with other nations, South Korea has weathered the pandemic well and, as a result, has seen increased interest in its property markets from foreign investors. In January, Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific senior editor Jennifer Molloy spoke with three experts on South Korea.
The economic recovery from COVID-19 restrictions was swift. “When the economy opened after the Delta wave, we were trading 20 percent above 2019 levels for 10 weeks,” said Keith Breslauer, managing director and senior partner of Patron Capital Partners.
Property markets in South Korea can offer solid investment opportunities, but managers need deep knowledge of the local players, the local ESG requirements and the different ways participants in development work together to build properties in this market, according to Brian Chinappi, partner and head of real estate based in Hong Kong, and Scott Choi, director, real estate, based in Seoul, both of Actis.
Rising inflation has caused some investors to question whether real estate still serves as an effective inflation hedge. The answer is a qualified yes, according to Donald Hall, head of research, Americas, for Nuveen Real Estate.
A sponsored report by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, 2022 global real estate outlook — Late-cycle investing philosophy comes early, which was published in the March issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, breaks down the property markets sector by sector to examine the likely effects higher inflation, increased competition for core property assets and accelerating prices will have on global property markets in 2022.
Ongoing supply-chain disruption, continue ecommerce growth and higher construction costs are poised to support the continued strong investment performance for the U.S. institutional-quality industrial sector.
Virtual reality areas, mixed-use offerings and a focus on local, independent retailers could reignite the shopping centre, writes Michael Peter, founder and CEO of P&P Group. The majority of shopping centres in Germany bear the suffix “arcade” or “gallery”.