Real Assets – Page 16
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White papersInfrastructure 2025 Outlook
In 2025, the macro backdrop for private infrastructure is undoubtedly positive. Economic growth is resilient, inflation remains above average, and interest rates are declining. Valuations have also fallen in recent years, offering relative value compared to public markets. All stars appear aligned for the asset class, but here is a simple truth – there is no easy money left in infrastructure.
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White papersEurope Real Estate Outlook – Edition December 2024: Who dares wins
Around six months ago, in our last publication, we wrote about the start of a new investment cycle in Europe. We highlighted the improvement in inflation and interest rates, in resilient purchasing manager indices (PMIs), especially for services, and how investors should act as athletes before the race begins: “train hard, win easy.” Prepare and get outsized returns.
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White papersGlobal Retail Attractiveness Index: New high in European retail markets
The positive trend in European retail markets is becoming more entrenched. In the third quarter of 2024, the Global Retail Attractiveness Index (GRAI) for Europe stood at 114 points, 1 point higher than in the previous year (Q3 2023: 113 points). In eight of the European markets covered by the Union Investment and GfK retail index, the index showed moderate to strong gains.
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White papersExploring emerging trends in the logistics and light industrial sector
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” As George Shaw rightly pointed out, continuous rethinking and development of strategies is essential for growth. In recent seasons, we have explored key megatrends like Industry 4.0, urban logistics, the rise of e-commerce, and de-globalisation. While the first three remain important components of the sector and continue to develop and shape the market, some megatrends are changing, thus offering opportunities and challenges alike.
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White papersPraemia REIM gears up for new cycle
Praemia REIM, formerly known as Primonial REIM, is sharpening its focus as it enters a new phase in the real estate market. As a European leader in healthcare real estate—the cornerstone of its strategy—the firm is doubling down on social infrastructure while seeking new opportunities. As the market shifts, Praemia REIM is exploring growth areas beyond its traditional strongholds, including potential expansion into the UK and Central Europe, and diversifying into emerging asset classes such as real estate debt focused on green infrastructure.
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White papersIs real estate in recovery mode?
Following two years of cumulative losses, global real estate returns turned positive in the second quarter, suggesting a budding recovery in the asset class. In the era of low interest rates, real estate values were flying high. Globally, quarterly total returns reached 5.0% in Q4 of 2021 and 17.8% year-over-year in the subsequent quarter, according to the MSCI Global Quarterly Property Index – figures that were well above long-term averages. The tightening cycle that followed more than unwound those gains, with values now back to 2018 levels.
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White papersIn Plain Sight: The Core Plus real estate investment opportunity that every investor should know about
In today’s commercial real estate environment, a new paradigm is reshaping the way BGO is approaching the market. Structural shifts in capital flows, transformative demographic trends, and evolving tenant behaviors are driving waves of change that have further strengthened our resolve and the rationale for Core Plus investing. We are in a higher cost of capital world, not only with interest rates but also with insurance costs and operating environments. Further, secular shifts have changed the way the built environment is utilized globally.
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White papersTrumponomics and European real estate
The incoming US administration isn’t all bad news for Europe’s real estate investors
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White papersTrumponomics and European real estate
The incoming US administration isn’t all bad news for Europe’s real estate investors
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White papersHines Affirms Commitment to Aussie Living Sector After BTR Sites Put Up for Sale
Hines has made a strategic shift from developing Australian rental residential assets in favour of purchasing properties with near-term income potential, the US developer and fund manager said Tuesday, after local media suggested the company was retreating from the build-to-rent sector Down Under.
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White papersEuropean logistics: An evolving landscape
A detailed look at the logistics market in Europe and its remarkable transformation over the last decade
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White papersOutlook 2025-2027: Attention to health care real estate
Attention health care real estate! The asset class is moving up the political agenda and attention to new care facilities is growing. Supply and demand prices are becoming more balanced, while institutional investors’ interest in sustainable real estate continues to grow. In the Outlook 2025-2027, Achmea Real Estate is therefore optimistic about investments in health care real estate.
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White papersISA Outlook 2025: Asia Pacific – The dawn of a new real estate cycle
The current real estate cycle in Asia Pacific is not a simple repetition of a typical cycle. While Asia Pacific economies have not been immune to supply chain disruptions and elevated inflation, interest rates and construction cots, real estate capital market liquidity in the region (with the exception of China and Hong Kong) has fared much better than in other parts of the world. In our view, the varying and sometimes contrasting cyclical patters among major real estate sectors within each country set the region apart from global trends.
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White papersISA Outlook 2025: Global – The dawn of a new real estate cycle
Almost three years after interest rates began to spike leading into the Great Tightening Cycle, the first light of a new real estate cycle is clearly visible on the horizon. As with the start of every new day, however, opportunities and challenges lie ahead.
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White papersKorean wave: build-to-rent opportunities in Seoul
What lies ahead for housing in Seoul? We discuss the evolving opportunities for renters and landlords.
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White papersA thematic framework for investing in the nature and climate transition
We’ve identified five broad investment themes that comprehensively address the challenges of climate change and nature loss.
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White papersSchroders Capital Investment Outlook: Real Estate H2 2024
Our latest outlook shares findings from our proprietary valuation framework, which suggests that the sequential opportunity to access the long-term benefits of real estate on an attractive entry basis is now live across key geographies and sectors.
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White papersISA Briefing: The “Red Sweep” and real estate: has the outlook changed?
The impacts of US presidential elections on financial markets and especially real estate are often overstated, as we have pointed out previously (see our ISA Briefing, “Elections everywhere, all at once”). An excessive focus on the news cycle can distract from important ongoing trends that are not ‘new news’, such as a broad global trend toward cooling inflation. Headlines also tend to accentuate differences, rather than commonalities, between outcomes. For example, regardless of the election result, trends favored greater nearshoring, and both US political parties are hawkish on China.
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White papersOutlook 2025-2027: Resilient recovery in a challenging environment
The real estate market is recovering resiliently and new opportunities are emerging for institutional investors. However, the investment climate remains challenging. This is the conclusion of Achmea Real Estate’s Outlook 2025 - 2027, the first part of which has just been published.
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White papersTop 10 with… Interview with our experts on life sciences
With a strong long-term growth potential and a distinct social angle, the life sciences sector is developing at a fast pace. Forward-thinking investors are looking for ways to enter this growing niche sector. But access is selective, and industry expertise isn’t enough to be successful. What does it take?
