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Rents increased 0.7% quarter-on-quarter in Q2 2015, while office prices likewise increased 0.7%. This came as occupier demand was driven by expansionary and relocation activity in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Bangalore. However, at a regional level, new office supply outstripped demand for the second consecutive quarter, po...
Following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), real estate bank lending in Asia Pacific significantly moderated due to key factors: international regulators implementing stricter capital requirements on bank lending such as the Basel III framework, and cooling measures imposed by domestic authorities to curb rapidly rising prop...
The consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector is a giant with global sales exceeding $550bn. The markets that make up this global sector are diverse in character and research for Ti’s latest report, Global CPG Logistics 2015, has identified the key differences between them.
Institutional investors’ appetite for real estate assets in Asia Pacific is strong, both for core property and increasingly for value-add secondary office and retail assets, according to the latest research published by M&G Real Estate.
Chinese investors were the second largest buyers of commercial property in Australia by close of the first quarter of 2015, behind Singapore and surpassing the US, with one-quarter of the total US$4 billion of Chinese overseas investments in Q1 2015 going towards Australian properties. Chinese investors accounted for one-thir...
The combined effect of the falling Euro and stronger US Dollar continues to be the key challenge facing Dubai’s hotels, as average room rate (ARR) fell by 10.8% to US$271.64 during the month of May. Although occupancy levels remained strong at 83.8%, up 1.9 percentage points over the same period last year, the fall in ARR res...
London's West End continued to be the world's highest-priced office market but Asia dominated the world's most expensive office locations, accounting for four of the top five markets, according to CBRE Research's semi-annual Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs survey.
Whilst already mature and developed in the US, UK and Australia, the self-storage industry is rapidly expanding in Asia, fulfilling market demand for more storage space. CBRE reveals that consumer demand is strong, due to a range of drivers such as disruptive life events, urbanization and changes in business activity, with ci...
The global house price boom continues ever more strongly. House prices rose in 25 of the 38 world's housing markets which have so far published housing statistics during the year to Q1 2015, using inflation-adjusted figures. The more upbeat nominal figures, more familiar to the public, showed house price rises in 31 countries...
Tokyo is the world’s hottest city for new retailer expansion, attracting 63 new retail brands, according to the latest report by global property advisor CBRE, “How Global is the Business of Retail?”. Singapore follows Tokyo with 58 new retail brands and Abu Dhabi saw the arrival of 55 new retail brands, ranking the city in th...
Drilling down to the all important metric of gross operating profits per available room, or GOPPAR for short, hotels throughout Europe and MENA will experience varying levels of profits through 2017 according to the latest quarterly forecast data released by e-forecasting and HotStats.
In April, a 10.8 percentage point reduction in occupancy levels to 62.3% had a direct impact on the performance of Amman hotels. The lower demand during the month saw both average room rate (ARR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR) fall by 4.3% and 18.5% respectively to US$154.94 and US$96.48. Hotels were able to offset t...
Global real estate investors remain confident and their intentions are expansionary, with more than half planning to increase their acquisitions in 2015, according to CBRE’s Global Investor Intentions Survey 2015.
Commercial real estate services firm CBRE and Asia-based investment bank Daiwa Capital Markets launch a unique collaboration in the form of a major research report addressing the impact of the Hong Kong-Shanghai Stock Connect Scheme and the growing intensity of China’s financial markets in Hong Kong, and the massive implicati...
In Q1 2015, overall vacancy in Asia increased for the first time in two years rising to 9%, due to slower leasing activity and the large volume of new office supply scheduled for completion in 2015. CBRE expects that oversupply will persist over the remainder of the year and vacancy will continue to rise. In Manila’s CBD, vac...
Global real estate investors remain confident and their intentions are expansionary, with more than half planning to increase their acquisitions in 2015, according to CBRE’s Global Investor Intentions Survey 2015.
Four and five star hotels in Dubai saw average room rates (ARR) fall by 5.5% to US$380.85 in March, according to the latest data from HotStats. Occupancy levels remained stable during the month at 88.8%, however the reduction in ARR had a flow-on effect on revenue per available room (RevPAR) which fell by 4.8% to US$338.25. A...
In Q1 2015, Asia Pacific saw that demand for logistics space was driven by 3PLs, e-commerce, and automotive manufacturers. There is a projected 65.6 million sq. ft. of new logistics warehouse space being built in 2015, and the majority of this will be led by Seoul (20%), Shanghai (20%) and Tokyo (17%). This year’s upcoming su...