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Exit queues for funds in the NFI-ODCE have been at all-time highs for several quarters now — higher even than during the global financial crisis, by a substantial margin.

After several years of decade lows for global commercial real estate transaction volume, 2025 may bring higher transaction volumes, according to a report by Oxford Economics.

“In a fast-changing world, life sciences occupiers reassess how real estate strategies can help them to stay ahead of the competition by accessing the right talent, delivering product to market, supporting cost optimization, and driving environmental sustainability,” notes Savills Research in its November report, Spotlight on the Life Sciences Sector.

Japanese investors’ strong appetite in 2024 for commercial real estate investment in Australia is set to surpass their capital flows into US real estate for the first time in at least 10 years, according to a late October 2024 report from Cushman & Wakefield, citing data from MSCI.

GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has sold its 50 percent stake in UK shopping centre Westquay to Hammerson, a UK REIT, for £135 million (US$172 million), representing a loss of £164 million (US$208 million) from GIC’s 2007 purchase price of £299 million (US$380 million), according to Singapore’s The Business Times.

SC Capital Partners Group, an Asia Pacific real estate investment manager, has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-headquartered and -listed real asset manager, CapitaLand Investment (CLI).

Cap rate movement across Asia Pacific markets is being driven by the office sector, according to Colliers’ Asia Pacific Cap Rates Report Q3 2024, with eight out of 18 cities covered in the research recording changes in their office sectors.

Singaporean construction group and property developer Tiong Seng Holdings has opened its flagship Watermark Tiong Seng Lifestyle Centre in Tianjin, China.

The growth in participants and gross asset value (GAV) covered by the GRESB Real Estate Benchmark in the past 15 years highlights an increasing interest in real estate that is sustainable, efficient and resilient.