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As record-breaking investment flows into real estate, fund managers face increasing complexity and growing investor demands for real time reporting. We talk to Yardi’s Bernie Devine about the trends.

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As governments around the world start to ease restrictions on lockdowns, attention inevitably turns to the concept of “returning to work.” However, this viewpoint incorrectly frames the current state of play. Many office-based workers have continued to work through the pandemic and so the focus should actually be on who should go “back to the office?” Of course, the first focus has to be on employee wellbeing and vulnerable employees need to remain safe.  But after that, the situation becomes more blurred,

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Respondents to the Q2 Asia Pacific Commercial Property Monitor indicated that regional sentiment remained downbeat  in Q2. The RICS Commercial Property Sentiment Index*  (CPSI) fell from -31 in Q1 to -38 in Q2, the lowest reading since the Global Financial Crisis. As can be seen in Chart 1, the results from Asia Pacific are in line with those from the Americas (-38), Europe (-36) and the Middle East and Africa (-39).

Chart 2 shows China was the largest contributor to the downbeat sentiment in Asia Pacific. However, this is largely due to its large regional weighting in the index (China represents 48% of the Asia Pacific Index). The CPSI was firmly negative in every Asia Pacific country tracked by this survey. Chart 2 also shows a deterioration in conditions in Australia, India, Japan and elsewhere in APAC (including Hong Kong and Singapore).

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We are happy to share our member, MSCI, model: MSCI Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk (Climate VaR) model that demonstrates how the nature and magnitude of physical risks may differ across assets and portfolios; and highlight the importance of considering.

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The MSCI Global Annual Property Index weighs real estate investment returns across 25 countries. While MSCI’s national indexes for Japan and Korea are included in the MSCI Global Annual Property Index, our market data for seven other Asian countries – China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand – are excluded from that index. In this report, all national market sizes are based on bottom-up, portfolio-specific estimates, and these are converted into US Dollars using the yearend currency conversion rate.

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