Despite economic headwinds around the world, the senior industry players canvassed for this Global edition of Emerging Trends in Real Estate® believe there is potential for renewed investment activity following greater clarity on monetary policy in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.
The hope is that buyers and sellers of properties are starting to accept a higher-for-longer interest rate environment and will therefore find the middle ground on pricing that has been so elusive over the past two years.
With alignment on pricing comes the belief that real estate can recover from one of the worst investment downturns in years, although any upswing in activity is expected to be much more pronounced in 2025 than in 2024. But there is still a fair degree of caution in real estate, and diversification of risk by market and by sector will be critically important.