Asia Drives Inter-regional Property Investment

• 3 October 2017
• Construction Focus
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Asian investors are increasingly driving global inter-regional commercial property investment as they look to western markets for deals.

According to a report by property analysts JLL, Asian investors now represent five of the 10 biggest cross-border spenders. Inter-regional investment reached USD19.5 billion in Q2 2017, up 71 percent from the same period in 2016.

China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Japan led the Asian markets with almost all their inter-regional investments targeting the US, the UK and Germany.

However, domestic investment also rose significantly with USD49 billion invested in real estate in Asia Pacific in Q2 2017. Industry experts have pointed to the recently introduced credit controls in China as contributing to growing interest closer to home.