Market Trends & Analysis

Office workers worldwide are trickling back to the office as corporations make plans for hybrid working arrangements.

Asia Pacific’s commercial real estate market transacted more than $34 billion in direct investment in the first quarter of 2021, down less than 1 percent year-on-year.

In what is easily the largest hotel acquisition to come from the pandemic so far, Extended Stay America, is being acquired by private equity players Blackstone and Starwood.

Acquisitions and expansions continue to pick up pace as Airbnb, who had laid off 25% of its workforce early last year when the pandemic hit, went public at the end of 2020 and resumed plans to establish a technology hub in Atlanta.

The Year of the Ox is off to a roaring start for the property market as funds and property firms turn up the gears on acquisitions.

With the economy anticipated to recover, along with optimism regarding the COVID-19 vaccination, the property investment market is poised for a pickup in 2021.

Real estate activities are very dependent on the local economy conditions, which may make the price fluctuations differ in their response to the pandemic situation compared to the rest of the world.

The beginning of the year 2021 offers a glimmer of hope to the real estate industry in certain countries; from the continuing rise in property investment in China to recovery signs in the UAE market.

2020 had been an extraordinary year for all. The pandemic left hardly any business or industry untouched, but real estate was front and centre for many of the biggest shifts.

Read up on past Weekly Vantage Points to find out the hottest news during the period of Q4 2020.

Real estate markets globally still find themselves in a positive trend towards the new year especially in the residential sector.

Investors remain confident in the real estate as a sought-after defensive asset with warehouses proving to be a hot commodity now as e-commerce drives up the need for further expansion.

Global markets have recovered as quickly as the pandemic hit and these include the real estate market which has surprisingly performed better than expected

Despite the increase in price and limited supply of houses, with the purchase activity increasing, this could be a sign for a good year in the real estate industry.

Optimism rises across the markets with hopes of a vaccine coming near. The global real estate markets have become relatively predictable with hot growth in the residential sector.

Global real estate has seen liquidity beginning to recover, although the impact on the property market due to COVID-19 could be temporary or more structural.