Developed Asia’s residential multifamily sector represents a strategic pivot towards markets combining economic stability with transformational demographic trends. While Western markets grapple with policy uncertainty, developed Asia demonstrates low inflation, robust urban population growth, and rental dynamics proven resilient through multiple economic cycles.

In the world of institutional real estate investing, you might say there are two kinds of bears: wild bears and zoo bears. Wild bears roam freely and are always on the prowl for opportunities in the markets. They take carefully calculated risks and shape their own destiny. Zoo bears tend to stay within the confines of conventional strategies, waiting in their self-imposed cages for opportunities to come to them. Judging by some of the directions in which the real estate investment team of the US$358.4 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has been heading, I personally would place them in the “wild bear” category.

Copenhagen has unseated Vienna as the most liveable city in the world, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index 2025, but five out of the top 10 most liveable cities are located in the Asia Pacific region.

Aware Super has acquired APG’s stake in European apartment-hotel owner and operator The July. Combined with its existing stake acquired in 2020, Aware Super now owns the majority of the business.

REITs in China and India’s markets showed robust growth in 2024 and are expected to continue to attract strong investor interest this year, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s Asia REIT Market Insight 2024–2025.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Japan’s largest financial institution, has launched a real estate finance structure (equity and debt) that quantifies and improves social impact as a key performance indicators, in collaboration with Longevity Partners and GOYOH, powered by GOYOH’s ESG integration platform EaSyGo.

According to Savills’ latest Impacts research, global ecommerce sales are projected to hit US$4.8 trillion in 2025, with customers expected to return US$1 trillion in goods this year.