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As many economies continue to raise interest rates to tackle inflation, and with growing concerns of a recession in other parts of the world, Asia Pacific investors have become more cautious, with net buying intention softening in 2023. 

CBRE’s 2023 Asia Pacific Investor Intentions Survey, which features insights from more than 500 investors across the region, finds that although fundraising activity remains healthy, most investors intend to adopt a wait-and-see stance in the first half of 2023 in anticipation of slower yield expansion and milder rate hikes.

Other key findings include:

• Real estate allocations among Asia-based institutional investors are largely below their global peers. These respondents indicate that their allocations to real estate will remain the same or increase over the next 12 months.
• Opportunistic strategies will gain momentum in 2023 as investors look to capitalise on price dislocation and seek distressed opportunities.
• Industrial and logistics remains the most preferred asset class, while residential (especially multifamily and built-to-rent) logged the strongest uptick in interest. Offices are still the top property type among core investors.
• Although healthcare-related properties have overtaken data centres to become the most popular alternative sector, the investible universe for this asset class in Asia Pacific remains limited.
• Tokyo retained its status as the top city for cross-border investment for a fourth consecutive year, followed by Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City.

This report was originally published in https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/asia-pacific-investor-intentions-survey-2023

India has long been recognised as a country with immense potential, but it was often hindered by bureaucracy and red tape. In recent years, however, India has made laudable strides, with its economic growth leapfrogging other major countries, in part driven by concerted government-led reforms and sector-focused initiatives that have shaped a more business-friendly climate, particularly for foreign investment.

Today, India has forged ahead into a new era, and the country holds much promise with the largest youth population in the world1 and the second largest labour force2 globally. Investors can look forward to sustained returns from key beneficiaries of these structural advancements, particularly in the Office and Business Park sector.

This report was originally published in https://www.capitaland.com/en/about-capitaland/newsroom/inside/2023/January/Riding_the_Growth_Impetus_A_Focus_on_Indias_Office_and_Business_Park_Sector.html

Storm Clouds Gather

Asia Pacific property markets face a number of battle fronts in 2023. The first is external to the region as the war in Ukraine combined with post-COVID supply chain disruption has fueled inflation causing central banks to raise rates and in doing so cool growth. This is nowhere more apparent than in the US and Europe, the final demand markets for Asia’s exports. The second is within the region itself and concerns its largest economy, China, which accounts for 53% of the region’s GDP and almost a third of all manufactured products. A low growth and, thanks to zero-COVID policies and a more assertive political direction, more isolated China, is depriving real estate capital of a universe of investment opportunities while funds flowing out of the Mainland have slowed to a trickle. The final battle front is longer term and structural and concerns how people work and shop and how new technologies are tearing down the old boundaries between asset classes while creating new ones in an orgy of creative destruction. Something familiar to markets globally.

This report aims to engage occupiers in their ESG journey, allow landlords to better align and develop stronger partnerships with their tenants, and guide occupiers to maximise their green potential through their real estate.

This report was originally published in https://apac.knightfrank.com/esgmattersapac