International property consultant Knight Frank's latest Global Buyer Survey released this week analyzed the impact that Covid-19 had on residential buyers' attitudes to purchasing homes around the world.
According to global property consultant CBRE, with vaccinations ramping up and economies reopening worldwide, global commercial real estate investment volume grew by 98% year-over-year to $260.4 billion in Q2 2021.
With e-commerce penetration expected to grow to 26 percent of all retail sales by 2025, the U.S. will need an additional 330 million sq. ft. of distribution space just to handle the increase in online ordering in that timeframe.
International property consultant Knight Frank is reporting that urban house prices globally increased by 5.6% on average in 2020, up from 3.2% in 2019.