Investors’ appetite for logistics assets will remain strong in 2018 as investors continue their push into the sector in a bid to diversify their portfolios, says Robert Dobrzycki, CEO of Panattoni Europe.
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Technology will continue to boost e-commerce and drive the transformation of shopping centres into logistics platforms, says Alexander Otto, CEO of ECE Projektmanagement.
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Isabelle Scemama, CEO of AXA IMRA, expects logistics property and the wider alternatives sector to continue their outperformance in 2018.
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Stefan Mächler, group CIO of Swiss Life, predicts that data will be an important strategic asset as digitalisation sweeps through the real estate sector.
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Investors need to understand the implications of the Brexit negotiations over the next 12-18 months, before committing to strategically re-enter the UK, says Georg Allendorf, head of real estate Europe at Deutsche Asset Management.
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The old real estate mantra ‘location, location, location’ may well morph into ‘location, digitalisation, information and analytics’, predicts Francois Trausch, CEO of Allianz Real Estate.
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As the current favourable spread with bond yields won’t last forever, value from the record low initial yields seen across Europe can only be achieved through income growth from strong occupational fundamentals, says Thomas Wels, head of REPM at UBS Asset Management.
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Brexit has not yet caused a meaningful slowdown in the UK economy and any real impact won’t be felt until 2019. That said, the greatest potential for a European upset this year is likely to be political, says Jeremy Plummer, head of EMEA at CBRE Global Investors.
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Brexit is contributing to a more balanced view of international investors on the UK and continental Europe and will help to bridge the Anglo-Saxon and European way of investing, according to Barbara Knoflach, deputy CEO of BNP Paribas Real Estate.
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Alex Jeffrey, CEO of M&G Real Estate, sees capital inflows into European real estate from Japan and greater China increasing but warns that the current market upswing will not last forever.
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International developer and asset holder Trei Real Estate has concluded 2024 with the opening of its 41st Vendo Park in Poland.
