Over the past five years, global investment into industrial and logistics property has doubled, reaching a total of US$126 billion in 2017. A sector traditionally prized for its stable income has recently seen dynamic capital growth, and logistics facilities now attract lower yields than retail property in some markets. This evolution has been driven by […]

Chinese investors have continued pouring their money into Thailand’s property sector even as the kingdom barrels toward an uncertain national election. Thailand was the fourth-most-popular country for Chinese property investment in 2018, according to Juwai. With $2.3 billion coming in from Chinese sources, the Southeast Asian nation ranked behind only the U.S. ($30 billion), Hong Kong ($16 billion) […]

Higher interest rates, mortgage curbs and the unknown effects of the general election are among the risk factors for the local market, says CBRE Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr famously quipped that “prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future”.  However this year will bring significant changes in the Bangkok property […]

China’s continued economic slowdown is reshaping the country’s real estate market, as investor confidence remains high.

Developers and buyers all want to know the impact on the property market of the 197-kilometre mass transit lines under construction in Bangkok. These new infrastructure developments, in addition to the 110km of existing mass transit lines, will improve access to and from inner city areas and link midtown areas. This will affect the property […]

The infiltration of blockchain, the technology that supports cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, into industries around the world is only a matter of time. The historically traditional commercial real estate industry won’t easily escape. In its simplest form, blockchain is a distributed database. By recording and combining transactions into a de-centralized, secure ledger system, it creates a […]

Placemaking is based on a simple principle: if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you will get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you will get people and places:  Southeast Asia, not the least Bangkok, is playing catch-up. In a recent report, CBRE says sluggish retail sales and flat rental growth […]

Investors are attracted by strong occupier demand for logistics properties, and higher yields relative to other forms of traditional real estate. In Asia Pacific, drivers of growth for logistics and warehousing space include demand from third-party logistics operators and e-commerce companies. Direct real estate transaction volumes in the industrial sector totaled US$13.8 billion in 2016, […]