The recent volatility in the UK property market (following the referendum vote in that country on 23 June to leave the European Union) and subsequent — albeit modest — downgrades to euro zone economic growth have underscored the importance of investment diversification. And, it seems, European pension funds are increasingly willing to consider investment beyond their domestic market. A significant 11.2 percent of Europe’s income-hungry private real estate investors — up from 8.3 percent a year ago, according to INREV’s Investment Intentions 2016 report — are looking to the compelling opportunities offered by Asia Pacific.

Once the exclusive preserve of opportunistic investors, Asia’s increasingly mature, transparent and liquid real estate market now offers long-term European investors compelling diversification benefits, attractive defensive characteristics and the potential to generate a secure income stream from high-quality assets. The ascendancy of this mark