All Research & Forecasting articles
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White papers2023 ESG Report
At Hines, we strive to be the best – and most innovative – real estate investment, development, and management firm in the world. Over the years, ESG has become an increasingly critical part of our thinking and planning for the future of Hines.
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White papersListed infrastructure: a missing piece in your portfolio
Investing in essential service providers, which are integral to our daily lives, results in unique investment characteristics that can diversify your portfolio across market cycles. The defensive growth profile of the asset class complements equities, fixed income, and private infrastructure. Integrating GLI into a traditional 60/40 portfolio by substituting 10% of equities holds the potential to provide similar returns while lowering overall portfolio risk.
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White papersMacroeconomic and financial market forecasts - October 2024
Macroeconomic forecasts as of 4 October
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White papersIs it prime for picking?
If you were to write down the combination of factors to create the ideal scenario for value-add investing, it would look remarkably similar to what we see in today’s markets. The alignment of deep repricing, intense liquidity pressures, the need to bridge the debt financing gap, a progressive regulatory environment, a reduced supply pipeline, evolving structural mega-trends and the loosening of interest rates have created a distinct opportunity for investors ready and able to deploy capital into real estate.
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White papersRising inequality: a global sustainability challenge that needs our attention
As the global economy grows, an increasing number of people are being left behind. This is more than a moral crisis—it’s an economic one.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – Switzerland, Edition 2H24: Market momentum
The macroeconomic environment in recent years has been characterized by great volatility. The pandemic and the resulting economic slump were followed by inflation, interest rate hikes and the associated fears of recession as well as geopolitical upheaval, which significantly increased uncertainty in global trading markets.
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White papersEuropean life sciences real estate
It’s darkest before dawn in European real estate markets
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White papers2024 Mid-Year Real Estate Outlook
Bulls and bears both had ample evidence to support their cases coming into 2024. Although inflation has yet to relent to a level that the central banks are comfortable enough to normalize policy interest rates, the global economy has remained remarkably resilient thanks to strong hiring and consumer spending.
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White papersTimberland’s expanding investable universe
Timberland earns a position in many institutional investors’ portfolios because of its portfolio-level benefits – a lack of correlation with capital markets, ability to hedge inflation, and steady income return. For some investors, portfolio decarbonization is an increasingly important portfolio benefit that also comes from an allocation to timberland.
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Asset Manager NewsWho are the world’s largest impact capital managers? The 2024 Impact 50 list revealed
The Impact 50 is our proprietary list of the world’s largest managers of private markets impact capital, spanning private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and other strategies.
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White papersRoom to grow: Bidwells article on the role of real estate in the commercialization of R&D
The creation of any ready-to-use product from Research & Development (R&D) needs to consider the ‘five Ps’ of Good Manufacturing Process (GMP)
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White papersMaking sense of infrastructure debt
The capital expenditure required to support anticipated growth in power demand while also reducing carbon emissions will necessitate significant amounts of debt financing going forward. Don Dimitrievich, Portfolio Manager for Nuveen Energy Infrastructure Credit, explains the evolving infrastructure debt opportunity set and the EIC team’s approach to thematic investing in IPE’s recent July/August 2024 report.
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White papersListed vs. private infrastructure: Why not both?
Investing in listed infrastructure may provide benefits that make a strong case for a larger allocation to listed markets relative to private investments than is currently observed by institutional investors. At Nuveen, we strongly believe in the infrastructure asset class.
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White papersInfrastructure debt in a sweet spot for 2024
Private infrastructure had a challenging 2023. After a record fundraising year in 2022, we reported in our Infrastructure Outlook 20245 overall funds raised in 2023 fell by over 50%.
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Asset Manager NewsActis Publishes First TCFD Report With Climate Scenario Analysis Across 225 Asset Locations And 10 Sectors
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has published its first Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report, which aims to inform and deepen understanding of climate risks and opportunities across its portfolio.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – US, Edition May 2024: Cautiously optimistic
After more than two years of adjusting to higher interest rates, private market real estate results were mixed during 1Q24, with value declines offset by income in several sectors. Returns for retail and industrial warehouse turned slightly positive. Self-storage returns were flat. Apartments and office buildings experienced negative total returns; though niche segments of the sectors, like medical office, manufactured and student housing outperformed.
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White papersReal Estate Outlook – APAC, Edition May 2024: Easing into a recovery cycle
APAC macro performance has been resilient in recent quarters despite much tighter monetary conditions. Since December 2023, Oxford Economics has upgraded its 2024 growth forecasts twice and the positive revision was broad-based across most countries.
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White papersGlobal real estate - Opportunities as market bottoms out
Why add unlisted real estate to your traditional 60/40 portfolio? The paradigm for global inflation and interest rates may have changed, but unlisted real estate still has a key role to play in a multi-asset portfolio. The role of unlisted real estate and its required risk-return has changed as the risk-free rate has moved from zero and below.
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White papersNavigating growth: Real estate trends and opportunities in the European life sciences market
A large part of economic activity takes place within buildings. Therefore, real estate must meet the needs of the real economy as it develops and grows. The life sciences industry and its real estate demand are on the rise, aided by demographics and scientific progress. Thus, real estate focused on meeting the increasing needs of this part of the economy represents an attractive risk-adjusted investment opportunity for value-add and core investors alike.
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White papersReal Estate House View: Switzerland - First half-year 2024
The construction industry will have breathed a sigh of relief. The construction cost index recently rose by just 1.4% year-on-year. The sharp temporary increase thus remains an anomaly triggered by the shortage of supply. Prices for building materials, which are largely imported, were the main driver prior to the rise in interest rates, as the Drewry World Container Index shows. However, no price reductions are expected in 2024. The higher interest on borrowing is set to drive prices until mid-2024 at the latest. On top of this, additional planning requirements could potentially account for up to 2 percentage points of construction inflation.
