All Research & Forecasting articles – Page 3
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White papersU.S. Real Estate Sector Report
The U.S. office real estate market shows early signs of recovery, with selective opportunities emerging despite ongoing challenges.
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White papersHarrison Street 2025 Europe Outlook
Europe’s Inflation Story: Significant Progress Has Been Made but Risks Remain
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White papersHow a core-plus strategy may enhance your portfolio
Principal Real Estate has been investing in commercial real estate (CRE) for more than 60 years and in core-plus real estate for over 20 years. Having experienced numerous market cycles in that time, we believe CRE values have largely adjusted for the current cycle, setting the stage for an attractive entry point for private equity investors.
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White papersWhat does tariff uncertainty mean for real estate?
Private real estate entered 2025 with prospects looking up, having materially rebalanced over the course of a two-year downturn for the asset class.
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White papersSchroders Capital Investment Outlook: Real Estate H1 2025
There is increasing evidence of positive market movements in relation to activity and transaction pricing – and our value framework suggests that, despite a challenged economic outlook, we are in the early stages of a steady real estate recovery.
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White papersFour-quadrant report - March 2025
This report offers a clear view of U.S. commercial real estate through the four-quadrant framework. It highlights how economic, political, and market trends are impacting public and private equity and debt, with a summary of current conditions and key investment themes.
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Research ReportPrivate Insights #7 - Europe Logistics: Resilient Performance with a Promising Outlook
“The European logistics market has performed resiliently despite political and economic uncertainty, with structural trends and a recovering economy supporting the growing demand for modern warehouse space. With rate cuts, easing inflation and an improvement in price clarity, the market has also seen greater capital inflows. Mapletree endeavours to strengthen our foothold in this region to bring value to our investors.” - Ralph van der Beek, Chief Executive Officer, Commercial and Logistics, Europe
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White papersIn Focus - Energy transition infrastructure: Three key areas of opportunity
In our previous white paper, we made the case for a concentrated focus on the energy transition for private infrastructure allocations. Among other things we highlighted the uncorrelated returns and differentiated risk premia these assets can deliver to portfolios – and the potential for this to drive outperformance as the global journey to net zero progresses.
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Research ReportInfrastructure Quarterly
The Infrastructure Quarterly explores the performance of the private and listed infrastructure markets, along with sector insights such as renewables and digital infrastructure, to identify actionable insights for your portfolio decisions.
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White papersOpportunities in UK commercial real estate: Navigating a rebounding market
As we’ve previously discussed, the UK commercial real estate market is showing promising signs of recovery, making it an attractive option for investors. According to our newest forecast, various segments within the market are expected to deliver robust returns driven primarily by local supply and demand dynamics rather than yield compression.
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White papersGo against the tide, or with the flow? Exploring key themes and the market outlook for infrastructure investment
The macroeconomic backdrop for infrastructure is positive on most counts, including stronger than expected economic growth, above average inflation, and declining interest rates (albeit slowly). The denominator effect is behind us, after two years of strong public market performance.
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White papersIs a Functional Approach to Outsourcing the Way Forward?
CFOs and finance leaders are under growing pressure to reduce administrative costs while managing increasingly complex operations. Since 2008, the financial landscape has changed significantly. Portfolios have become more diversified, the number of funds and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) has increased, and regulatory requirements have expanded. At the same time, investors demand greater transparency and faster reporting, while fund managers require more detailed financial projections, budgets, and scenario analyses to navigate market uncertainties.
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White papersShaping the Future of Spanish Housing
Spain faces a housing production deficit of over 1 million homes, a gap that has been growing since 2014. By 2030, this shortfall is expected to exceed 1.7 million homes, representing more than 15 years of annual production. This structural imbalance presents a compelling opportunity for institutional and private investors looking to enter the Spanish residential market.
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White papersWhy core is back
After a period of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, higher debt costs and squeezed returns, we have reached a turning point in the market cycle for core real estate investment. The interest rate landscape is tilting in a more positive direction; loan margins are diverging with leverage now accretive again for lower risk high quality investments; and pricing has adjusted with limited re-pricing risk looking forward. With further interest rates cuts forecast, the outlook for yields is more stable and material recovery in real estate values is expected.
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White papersDeA Capital Real Estate: Demographics are destiny
DeA Capital Real Estate works with selected third-party institutional investors across Europe, with a total AuM of E13.5bn. Emanuele Caniggia and Emanuele Dubini, CEO and CIO respectively of DeA Capital Real Estate, explain why their international platform is driven by demographics and macroeconomics.
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White papersTurning Europe’s real estate complexity into an investment opportunity
The volatility of the past few years has created a new investment dynamic and operating environment. With shorter real estate investment cycles and valuations in some markets seemingly bottoming out, well-positioned investors should benefit from a different, flexible approach as a means to find pockets of growth. Annette Kröger, CEO Europe, PIMCO Prime Real Estate, reflects on why the current investment window needs a change of mindset.
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White papersGlobal Real Estate Outlook 2025
The world is in a state of flux with divergent political, fiscal and monetary policies affecting economies and markets in different ways. Global trends must be weighed alongside sector and asset allocation considerations to enable active real estate managers to make intelligent decisions that will generate value for investors through this phase of the cycle.
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Research Report2025 Market Outlook
Global economic growth will vary by region due to U.S. tariffs, protectionism, and immigration policies post-election, with persistent stagflation marked by low growth and high inflation.
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White papersSchroders Capital Global Real Estate Lens Q1 2025: your go-to guide to global property markets
In our quarterly Global Real Estate Lens, we identified that deal activity picked up at the end of 2024, reflecting improving sentiment, and despite continued macroeconomic headwinds there is now clear evidence of prices recovering following significant falls.
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White papersReal Estate Convictions: An Asset Manager’s View of the European Real Estate Markets - Q4 2024
World growth is currently forecast at +3.3% for 2025, a slight improvement on 2024 (+3.2%). While economic activity in the United States will be determined by Donald Trump’s economic policy decisions, these will also have global repercussions. Similarly, China will probably need to step up its fiscal support to boost activity. Finally, while the outlook for the euro zone has improved, possible trade tensions with the US, lack of productivity gains and regional conflicts are all risks weighing on the economic outlook.
