PATRIZIA Client Survey 2024: Majority expect strong pick-up in real estate investments

PATRIZIA has shared the results of its fourth annual PATRIZIA client survey, with more than 100 institutional investors participating.

The results show that investors expect an end to the wait-and-see mode in the real estate market, while they plan to invest more in the energy transition and digitalization. More than half of the respondents indicate that they will increase their allocations to investments in the energy transition, such as renewables and alternative-energy solutions, in the next five years, while more than 40 percent are aiming to invest more in digitalization, such as data centers or fiber-optic networks. Nearly two-thirds of institutional investors expect the number of real estate transactions to increase during the next two years, while only around 18 percent anticipate a further decline. In comparison, in last year’s survey, 64 percent had anticipated a decline in market activities.

“Similar to our own investment view, we see a growing sentiment