In many ways, Australia remains a blessed and lucky country. This past April, Australia recorded 26 years of growth without a recession. Despite this, danger signs are ahead, especially for the residential sector.
Multisector fund managers apply a liquidity risk premium for investment into direct property and other real assets. One of the challenges for real estate investors is assessing the relative level of liquidity among commercial property markets.
The global macroeconomic landscape continues its shift away from highly-accommodative monetary policy, deflation and the low-growth environment seen over the past five years, and toward fiscal stimulus, reflation and a higher-growth environment.
Given the risks and idiosyncrasies of any particular regional or metropolitan property market, experienced Asian institutional property investors suggest relative newcomers to the region team up with old hands.
Though geopolitical events seem to have been accompanied by a limited impact on volatility, plenty of concern remains about where we are in the real estate cycle in certain markets.
A halt — or extended pause — has come to the slew of high-profile overseas property acquisitions made in recent years by Beijing-based Anbang Insurance Group Co.
July capped another month of strong performance for Asia Pacific property stocks, with a total return of 6.4 percent. Impressively, seven months into 2017, the region has suffered only one month with negative returns.