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True value: Globally, how are real estate investors valuing their portfolios now, and what do they expect property valuations to look like in 2021 and 2022?
- April 1, 2021: Vol. 13, Number 4

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True value: Globally, how are real estate investors valuing their portfolios now, and what do they expect property valuations to look like in 2021 and 2022?

by Alex Frew McMillan

We are starting to see, with some certainty, where life post-virus may head. That, in turn, is providing firmer ground for real estate investors. In the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic, investors were frantically attempting to ascertain valuations based on cashflows that were shifting, fast. Real estate is prized as an asset class that will hold its value, but has it delivered, and where do values now stand?

While property valuations are facing heightened scrutiny across the board, COVID-19 has turned the heat up on pressure cookers that were already building to a boil. Those pressures have intensified for High-Street and shopping-centre retail, secondary office locations, and anything involved in the leisure sector, including hotels, entertainment facilities and transport linked to cross-border travel.

“Favourite child” syndrome is benefitting grocery-based essential retail, data centres, and logistics and industrial assets. A look at stock-market valuati

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