Investment activity is expected to increase steadily across the Asia Pacific region in 2024, according to Colliers’ 2024 Global Investor Outlook, released 29 November 2023.

The report points to steadily increasing activity in Asia Pacific markets throughout 2024 as certainty around the policy environment takes hold, gaps between buyers and sellers narrow, and more investors move to deploy capital.

“2024 definitely looks more positive than 2023, with a lot of pent-up equity … looking to find a home,” says Chris Pilgrim, Colliers’ managing director of global capital markets, Asia Pacific. “The depth of capital in most Asian markets has to diversify. We were in one market recently where out of the five large state institutions, all signalled their intentions to significantly increase their allocations to real estate over the next few years.”

Within Asia Pacific in particular, Pilgrim notes investors understand the resilience of the asset clas