Real Assets – Page 10
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Impact investing is ‘here to stay’
Risk and return used to be the two key factors dictating investment decisions. A third equally important dimension – impact – is now incorporated into decision-making.
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Investment Outlook 2024: Real Estate
In our Schroders Capital Investment Outlook webinar series, our experts guide you through investing across all asset classes of private markets. Hear our Real Estate experts’ insights.
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Real Estate Outlook – Europe, Edition November 2023: Are we there yet?
The economy in the eurozone is weakening but still holding up better than expected. After two quarters of meagre growth of 0.1%, the 3Q23 GDP for the region contracted by -0.1%. The purchasing managers’ index (PMI) survey results, with five consecutive readings below the neutral threshold of 50, resulting in a three-year low of 46.5 in October, suggest an even weaker start to 4Q23.
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Real Estate Outlook – US, Edition November 2023: Looking for respite
”Downturns are rare in private commercial real estate, but repricing and reduced buyer pools create opportunities for investors willing to accept more risk today for higher reward during recovery.”
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Real Estate Outlook – Global, Edition November 2023: Ongoing price adjustment
“Real estate capital values continue to edge lower, with the US lagging Europe, and APAC little impacted as Japanese interest rates remain on hold. Transaction activity remains muted while lending conditions have tightened. This is creating attractive opportunities for real estate-backed debt, such as bridging loans.”
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Real Estate Outlook – APAC, Edition November 2023: Navigating choppy waters
“Macro is likely to lose momentum further given restrictive monetary policy. More cap rate expansions are forthcoming with rates staying higher for longer. There are more risk factors to consider, and investors should stay selective in strong thematic plays.”
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Primonial Reim Real Estate Convictions 2023 – Q3
An Asset Manager’s View of the European Real Estate Markets
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Illiquidity premia in real assets: Q3 2023
Our real assets research team crunch the data to see how evolving macro conditions are reflected in private market returns.
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IPM – Edition November 2023: Our semi-annual insights into private market
As we approach the end of 2023, markets are grappling with competing dynamics. US President Harry S Truman once quipped, “Bring me a one-handed Economist. All my Economists say, ‘on the one hand… on the other’.” Seventy years later, investors have more data, faster information flow and yet face similar complexities when trying to foretell the future.
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ISA Outlook 2024: The global view
Searching for peak interest rates, solving the capital stack equation, winning sectors coming off the boil and moving beyond bifurcation in the market. How should institutional real estate investors approach the new year?
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ISA Outlook 2024: North America – healing … gradually
In the North America chapter of ISA Outlook 2024, we discuss how our key global themes apply in the context of the United States and Canada. Property markets in both countries spent much – if not most – of 2023 wondering when the US and Canada would hit their peak rates. At the time of writing, the answer to that question remains uncertain.
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ISA Outlook 2024: Europe – getting ready to go
In this chapter of the ISA Outlook 2024, we discuss how our key global themes apply in a European context. While property markets in Europe spent much – if not most – of 2023 in a waiting mode, rebased prices and strong fundamentals in many sectors suggest the time for action is drawing closer.
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A unique population position for Australia
Australia’s population has increased at historically high levels, far higher than anticipated and materially increasing the real estate requirements across the major sectors.
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It isn’t easy going green
Kermit the Frog, the ringmaster of The Muppets – an anarchical cast of puppet characters popular on the silver screen – once lamented in song that ‘it’s not easy being green’. Property owners, managers and developers can sympathise. With governments under pressure to meet the Paris Agreement commitments [climate change goals seeking to limit global warming to 1.5°C], attention is swinging towards the role buildings play in producing carbon dioxide (CO₂).
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UK long lease real estate: A unique access point for new capital
Investment market conditions for UK long lease real estate look more attractive than they have since the GFC. With the retreat of Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes as well as a rapid repricing of UK real estate in response to interest rate rises, an opportunity has arisen for new sources of capital to access investment grade, inflation-linked cash flows secured against high quality real estate, at what could be attractive value.
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Market Update third quarter 2023
After two strong, resilient years, the Dutch economy is experiencing a cooling-off in 2023 as a result of significant interest rate hikes by the ECB.
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Identifying and implementing solutions for the decarbonisation revolution
Revolutions take time. Whether it’s political upheavals, such as the French revolution in the late-19th century or the Bolshevik version in Russia two generations later, or societal transformation, such as the industrial revolution in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the pace of change can seem extremely quick but, in reality, such events are years and lifetimes in the making.
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Cromwell’s European Market Monitor – Q4 2023
Market Monitor gives our views on the latest data and trends from the financial markets and their impact on commercial real estate. The latest one covers ECB rates, credit standards and rate decline indicators.
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ISA Briefing: Big numbers with big implications
The real estate investable universe in 2023: In an uncertain market, it is tempting to prioritize cyclical questions such as the risk of recession and the path of interest rates over structural topics with longer-run implications. But challenging periods in real estate markets can also be attractive times to build exposure to the asset class.
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U.S. Life Sciences Real Estate: The Long-Term Outlook Remains Bright Amidst Robust Secular Demand
Over the past several years, institutional investor interest in purpose-built U.S. life sciences real estate has grown rapidly.1 Several significant secular demand factors, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, have led to historically high public and private capital funding levels.