Commercial real estate markets in Asia Pacific delivered strong total returns for investors in recent years. JLL expects Asia Pacific real estate to remain attractive to international investors and total returns in most markets to remain relatively steady in the next three years.

Risk. It’s been defined by some as the fact that more things can happen than will happen. It’s also been equated to degrees of uncertainty, although some would argue that uncertainty and risk are not the same thing.

It was only a short 10 years ago that real estate investors and managers were sorting through the wreckage caused by the global financial crisis. Fast forward to today, and the global real estate industry has reached new heights, riding a wave of unprecedented economic expansion in some regions.

While the global property sector was down slightly in July (by 0.5 percent) on further signs of flattening global growth, Asia Pacific property stocks had a tougher month, down 3.1 percent, as the region was led lower by tensions in Hong Kong and moves by China’s politburo to limit the property sector’s role as a potential economic stimulus tool.

While the global property sector was down slightly in July (by 0.5 percent) on further signs of flattening global growth, Asia Pacific property stocks had a tougher month, down 3.1 percent, as the region was led lower by tensions in Hong Kong and moves by China’s politburo to limit the property sector’s role as a potential economic stimulus tool.