Smart devices, reactive building systems, environmental assessments, sector breakdowns, financials and geographic market reports are all delivering greater amounts of data than ever before. The challenge is making sense of what can become an exponential rise in inputs and putting them to use.
The future is shrouded in uncertainty. Real option modelling can give, at least in broad terms, an indication to the prospective tenant of the dollar value of the option on offer and to the landlord an assessment of how much is being put on the table.
Reimagining, rebuilding and repurposing real estate has always played a key role in investors’ ability to create value. In today’s post-COVID world, however, the ability to change a property’s use has taken on a new level of importance. And it is adaptive reuse, specifically, that is rapidly becoming a central element of the repurposing toolkit.
Premium Australian office is still an attractive place to invest despite lingering impacts from the pandemic and more recent concerns around rising inflation and interest rates. Within the sector, however, more attention is rightly being paid to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, particularly amid the transition to net zero.
Although the Asia Pacific region’s REITs were not spared the unprecedented impact of the pandemic, the sector has recovered from its trough, with valuations gradually retraced to pre-pandemic levels. In the wake of the crisis, however, mergers and acquisitions of the region’s REITs have accelerated.
With rising geopolitical tensions, global growth slowed by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, a virtual roundtable with institutional investors and investment managers was held on 6 July by Institutional Real Estate, Inc on the outlook for real estate investing in China and Hong Kong.
Qualitas has secured commitments from a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for a new fully discretionary mandate to invest A$700 million (US$491 million) in Australian commercial real estate (CRE) private credit opportunities on behalf of a new investment vehicle.
China has plans to launch a 300 billion yuan (US$44 billion) real estate fund to help property developers amid the current debt crisis, a state bank official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.