Market Outlook

The MSCI Global Annual Property Index weighs real estate investment returns across 25 countries. While MSCI’s national indexes for Japan and Korea are included in the MSCI Global Annual Property Index, our market data for seven other Asian countries – China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand – are excluded from that index. In this report, all national market sizes are based on bottom-up, portfolio-specific estimates, and these are converted into US Dollars using the yearend currency conversion rate.

Cushman & Wakefield, in its latest report titled ‘The Rise and Rise of ASEAN’ highlighted the bright future that lies ahead for Southeast Asia. Some of the key perspectives include:

1. ASEAN's economies and population hold tremendous potential for its growth as a manufacturing bloc in the region. 

2. The stock of industrial land across ASEAN remains very healthy, presenting opportunities for occupiers to take up space at competitive land rates. 

3. Once the region emerges from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, it appears that Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia are set for a bright future through the rest of the 2020s. Developers active in these markets need to identify the stream of new corporate occupiers scoping out their markets.

新冠肺炎疫情对全球经济的影响引发了激烈辩论。多数预测认为，全球经济将经 历严重衰退，程度或甚于金融危机时期； 更有不少人士认为这将是第二次世界大战以来最严重的经济衰退。争论的焦点在于经济复苏模式。是否会出现V形反弹？还是U形、L形或W形？甚至有预测认 为会出现像耐克品牌标志那样的“对勾 形”复苏。 随着各国陆续放松封锁禁令但继续鼓励社交隔离，新冠肺炎疫情的长期影响仍有待观察。许多人士认为世界将大为不同。

New Launches

• H1 2020 new launch supply declined by 56% compared to H2 2019. The nationwide lockdown imposed from the last week of March severely impacted the real estate sector, resulting in muted launches.

• Q2 2020 was the most impacted quarter with launches being the lowest since 2013. During this quarter, new launch supply declined by 97% over Q1 2020 and 98% over the same period last year.

• The share of affordable housing in H1 2020 new launches was around 36% of the total supply. This decreased from 41% in H2 2019. In absolute terms, the half-yearly decline in this segment was around 61%. No new supply was added in the affordable segment in Q2 2020.