As the second half of 2021 wraps up, a new report from Invesco Real Estate reveals that, although the recovery from COVID-19 is occurring at an uneven pace across the globe, capital flows into real estate are recovering quickly.
The pandemic has clearly accentuated and accelerated structural shifts, according to the new report, House View – H2 2021. Capital is focused on higher demand sectors such as logistics and residential and specialty sectors such as life sciences.
“The snap back in fundamentals across those sectors driven by secular trends — demographics and technology — is impressive, with historical levels of demand across the likes of logistics, residential, life science and self-storage,” Nicholas Buss, senior director, research at Invesco Real Estate, told IREI in an exclusive interview. “This in turn is driving outsized rent gains, which is translating into value gains. The secular drivers were already in place pre-COVID, but the COVID
