Strong appetite for Asia Pacific real estate despite COVID-19 pandemic

The great majority of institutional investors globally plan to stick firm to their future investment plans for non-listed real estate in the Asia Pacific region in the coming year, according to the latest annual Investment Intentions Survey published by the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV), the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) and the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) in the Unites States.

Despite the turbulence of 2020, 77 percent of respondents said that the coronavirus pandemic had not changed their investment plans in Asia Pacific. Across all investment destinations globally, more investors reported plans to increase allocations to real estate than to reduce them because of COVID-19, w