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The GPR/APREA AsiaPac Performance Snapshot tracks the dynamics of listed real estate securities (including REITs) across 12 AsiaPac countries/regions and eight sectors, over multiple time horizons.

• All asset classes posted positive total returns in July – REITs were the strongest performers.
• Listed real estate, equities and bonds posted positive returns of 0.8%, 0.9% and 0.1% respectively verse REITs at 1.6%.

► July 2018 recorded US$1.5 billion in deal value, at par with investments recorded in July 2017. In terms of deal volume, investment activity increased by 50% to 63 deals in July 2018, compared to 42 in July 2017.

► Breaking away from recent trends, July 2018 recorded fewer large size deals. There were three deals of value > US$100 million (cumulatively worth US$402 million) in July 2018, accounting for only 26% of total investments as against a 65% investment share in June 2018.

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