Asia Pacific hotel investments are projected to reach $12.2 billion in 2024, driven by increased investment activity, a favorable interest rate environment, and positive macro and microeconomic trends.
Based on new data by CBRE, Outstanding senior commercial real estate debt in Asia Pacific totals at least $257 billion, with a funding gap of $8.4 billion expected between 2024 and 2026. This is a much narrower gap than investors in the other major regions.
According to property consultant Knight Frank, global housing markets continue to display healthy price growth in late 2023, despite the record rise in interest rates since late 2021. Across our basket of world cities, average prices only experienced a decline on a quarterly basis in the final quarter of 2022, after which prices have risen by 2.7%.
According to JLL, commercial real estate investment activity in Asia Pacific declined 22% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2023, recording the lowest quarterly figure since Q2 2010.