Global property consultant CBRE is reporting that data centre investment in APAC is set for a record year, with $1.8 billion in direct data centre investments transacted in the first half of 2021.
Based on findings of CBRE's 2021 Asia Pacific Future of Office Survey, a growing number of corporate occupiers plan to extend their Asia Pacific office footprint in the long-term while adopting strategies featuring greater flexibility and new hybrid working models.
Asia Pacific hotel investment remained flat in the first half of 2021 with $3.7 billion in sales, a decline of 3.7% year-on-year. In total, 61 hotel investment deals were transacted in the first half of the year across nine countries and representing over 10,000 rooms.
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.