SPONSORED: PGIM Real Estate – A role for institutions in Asia’s housing market?

Is there a role for institutional investors in Asia’s housing market? Cuong Nguyen, head of Asia Pacific Investment Research for PGIM Real Estate, thinks so, and describes the current opportunity to invest in and grow the institutional share of the private rental housing markets in Japan, China and Australia — an opportunity supported by high demand and changing regulations to make it easier for institutions to deploy capital in these markets. In an interview published in the October issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Nguyen explains, “The institutional rental housing market — which offers high-quality, professionally managed housing units — remains negligible outside Japan. Compared with an institutional market share of almost 50 percent in the United States, the institutional participation rate remains very low across most Asian markets except Japan, where the institutionalization rate is estimated at 25 percent.” To access a pdf of the Sponsored Se