Themes
Find out more about the key themes in Asia Pacific real estate and beyond: where and how to invest, how to take advantage of the new ESG era and to make your business greener, and learn about proptech developments which are transforming the industry.
Overseas investors are expanding their operations in Japanese real estate, drawn by stable performance and low financing costs.
India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman plans to invest $134 billion in transport infrastructure to support ambitious goals of reaching a $5 trillion GDP by 2025 and a $30 trillion economy by 2047.
Discover how Hong Kong aims to be a global leader in climate action with its new decarbonisation roadmap, targeting net zero emissions by 2050 and halving carbon emissions by 2035 from 2005 levels.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are beginning to transform how Asia Pacific real estate development projects are designed, built and managed.
Discover how Asia dominates global real estate with $48.1B invested overseas in 2023, led by Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong.
Discover India's real estate revolution: New small and medium-sized REITs set to democratize property investment, making it accessible to retail investors.
Explore the real estate landscape in 2024 across Asia, as Savills experts share insights into the prospects for China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Pakistan.
Explore lucrative real estate investment opportunities in the Asia Pacific region in 2024. Discover strategies for profiting from evolving global megatrends, including the undersupplied data center market driven by e-commerce, 5G, and AI.
Explore the rising trend of investment in Asia Pacific real estate debt, as non-bank lenders gain traction, offering higher yields and flexibility.
Explore the enduring stability and growth potential of Japan's real estate market. With strategic infrastructure investments, a resilient demographic outlook, and a welcoming business climate.
Discover the Resilience of Asia Pacific Real Estate in 2023. Despite global uncertainties, the region sees a rise in cross-border investments, with Japanese and Hong Kong investors leading the way.
London remains a top target for Asian real estate investors, showcasing its appeal as a global city with a thriving real estate market. While global economic uncertainty and rising interest rates have impacted investment volumes, London's resilience draws capital seeking exposure.
Real estate transaction volumes in Asia Pacific plummeted in the first quarter of 2023, but there are signs of recovery as investors adjust to the latest trends. Learn more about the latest developments in the Asia Pacific real estate market.
Sustainable commercial real estate developments are cropping up all over the Asia Pacific region and here Prospects features some of the best.
As energy costs rise and Asia Pacific economies move towards decarbonisation, more and more asset owners are starting to generate their own renewable electricity.
The sun has risen on China’s post-covid era, but the economy and real estate markets will be slow to warm up; both inbound and outbound investment are set to be sluggish.
It is the world’s biggest asset class, yet real estate is behind the curve compared with the financial sophistication in other sectors. Fortunately, the industry is on the cusp of a revolution and data is at the heart of it.
Real estate is a popular global asset class and particularly favoured by Asian investors for its security and long-term wealth protection merits.
Rising inflation and recession in the US and Europe are casting a shadow over global real estate markets and Asia Pacific has not been immune to the same forces pummelling other regions.
In the final part of Prospects’ series on building a sustainability strategy, we examine the key themes real estate organisations need to address in building out their programme.
Capital raising for real estate private equity funds is set to become harder as rising interest rates put pressure on sector performance.
Aligning with the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can help real estate organisations to build a coherent and targeted sustainability strategy around a recognised framework.
With the world in turmoil, Asian investors in real estate might be forgiven for sitting on their hands, especially when looking outside their own region.
Real estate organisations seeking to develop a sustainability strategy need to consider the materiality of various factors in their business.
Real estate investors are affected by all these difficulties, meaning it is hard to find investment markets where assets will be safe or at least relatively safe from the impacts of macroeconomic and geopolitical upheaval.
Real estate investors cannot afford to ignore stakeholder engagement as part of their environmental, social and governance process and as a key to adding value to their assets.
The world’s economic outlook has taken a turn for the worse, but real estate in Asia Pacific continues to offer opportunities for investors.
The world had barely regained its feet after the COVID-19 pandemic when war broke out in Ukraine, pitching nations back into economic difficulties again.
What is your sustainability strategy? Is it embedded in your corporate strategy? Many real estate businesses, especially private and smaller companies, might have trouble answering these questions but they are becoming impossible to dodge.
Asia Pacific lacks a concerted effort on decarbonisation, but most nations have set a net zero carbon emissions target; the real estate industry should be front and centre of efforts to improve the region’s performance, but how will this happen?
It has been a challenge for real estate investors to quantify the benefits of making their assets more sustainable.
More and more landlords and tenants in the Asia Pacific region are looking to green leases to help them achieve their sustainability goals, however the region is still lagging Europe and North America.
More and more landlords are focused on improving the sustainability of their assets, in order to reduce costs, to meet the requirements of new legislation or to help match their own environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets.
With floods, droughts and heatwaves hitting India in recent years, both government and real estate players are beginning to introduce measures to tackle climate change.
China is the world’s key manufacturing centre, responsible for almost one-third of global manufacturing output in 2020, but recent events have demonstrated the risks of such concentration.
Asian real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsors have not been deterred by the pandemic, with a host of new floats this year and more planned. REITs bring stability and fresh institutional capital to developing real estate markets, but also provide a stable, income-generating investment for individuals.
The global real estate industry accounts for 40% of global energy use and 30% of greenhouse gas emissions; with increased mandatory ESG reporting industry leaders are keen to demonstrate measurable improvements in building performance.
Prospects takes a look at five of the largest infrastructure projects underway in the region today, all of which will offer a range of opportunities to property players, by creating new transport nodes and links, freeing up land or even creating new cities.
Prospects brings you a selection of locations and homes where you might be able to set aside the cares of the world. Just don’t turn your phone on…
It has been a bumper year for Asia Pacific real estate transactions, with full year transactions volumes set to rise 30% to more than $180bn, according to Real Capital Analytics.
Southeast Asia is one of the most dynamic and diverse parts of the world, with growing wealth and a population of 650m presenting opportunities to real estate investors.
Green proptech is set to become an integral part of the real estate landscape in Asia Pacific, as landlords focus on reducing costs and the environmental impact of their assets.
Sustainability has been a growing priority for the real estate industry for more than a decade, yet not everyone is on board.
Deurbanisation has become a buzzword in the US and Europe, as economies seek a post-pandemic ‘new normal’ while Asia’s largest cities are on track to get larger.
It was a burgeoning trend prior to the pandemic, but COVID-19 has made wellness and healthy buildings a core concern for real estate users.
Investors from Europe, the Middle East and North America are buying in to the story of Asia Pacific’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the region’s long-term prospects.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought home to consumers and manufacturers that it is unwise to keep all your eggs in one basket.
Real estate crowdfunding has the potential to revolutionize the market, but like any venture which engages the general public, has a certain amount of risk.
In recent years, there has been considerable focus on the spending power of wealthy Chinese people and their ability to influence retail, hospitality and real estate markets.
South Korean investors were the biggest Asia Pacific exporters of real estate capital last year and their acquisitiveness is set to continue.
The COVID-19 pandemic has definitively brought to an end the long global real estate upcycle which began in 2009, as the world emerged from the global financial crisis.
Insurance companies are major investors in real estate worldwide and are gradually increasing their activity in Asia Pacific; the importance of regulation and the long-term view is crucial to understanding them.
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They may not garner as many headlines as those from China or South Korea, but Malaysian investors have become part of the global real estate investment scene.
Artificial intelligence is no longer the stuff of science fiction but is playing a growing role in the business of real estate.
Australia remains extremely popular with Asian real estate investors, even as prices continue to rise.
Family offices are some of the most important investors in real estate; how do they invest and what are they buying?
The Asia Pacific region is home to some of the world’s most advanced designs and iconic buildings, including the Shanghai Tower, the Petronas Towers and the Marina Bay Sands.
The prospect of further restrictions on China’s property developers could open up a massive opportunity for real estate investors.
Foreign investors are becoming more active in China as the market undergoes cyclical and structural changes.
Blockchain-linked digital securities are being touted as a way to improve real estate liquidity, but will they work in practice?
Asian investors have mainly focused on investing in Europe’s larger cities; however less-recognised sectors and locations may offer better value.
Contrary to some investors’ opinion, real estate assets are not gold bars, but living assets whose value can be enhanced.
The introduction of 5G mobile networks will have a significant impact on real estate investors.
Despite substantial capital raising by Asian real estate funds, the continent looks less exposed to the risk of excess dry powder than other regions.
The concept of resilience has become increasingly important in investing, with a major focus on climate change, nonetheless there is a multitude of other change risks: demographic, economic, political and technological.
Sustainable buildings offer clear cost advantages to occupiers and the benefits are now more quantifiable than ever.
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As 2019 looms, Prospects picks out a few factors which real estate investors ought to bear in mind for the year ahead.
For investors in developing markets, security of title can be a nightmare.
Asian property developers have been investing billions of pounds into London property in the run up to the UK’s departure from the European Union.
The most interesting company in retail real estate is neither a retailer nor a property firm.
Much has been written about the fourth industrial revolution, which refers to the development of technologies which blur the lines between the physical, digital, and biological.
Whether a location is “walkable” is not just a consideration for tourists, planners and environmentalists, but something real estate investors should consider.
South Korea’s real estate market has rapidly matured over the past decade and overseas interest continues to increase.
India’s developers are heading back to the equity markets and the nation is set to see its first real estate investment trust this year.
Imagine that, early this year, you sold a property for $10m and opted to take payment in Bitcoin.
Rising US interest rates present little threat to Asian real estate investors.
The first great wave of Chinese investment in overseas real estate has peaked and it will be some time before restrictions on outbound investment are relaxed.
At the recent annual plenary sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the three major tasks identified for the next five years were controlling financial risks, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection.