While institutional investors of the 1990s preferred passive investment vehicles with a diversified portfolio of multiple real estate sectors, recent real estate investment strategies have shifted from diversified REIT portfolios to specialised ones. In particular, specialised REITs have been validated as a superior real estate investment strategy compared with their diversified counterparts on both investment […]
When Marco Polo returned to Europe from his journey around Asia he brought back many things. One that attracted much attention at the time and went on to have a profound influence on European civilisation was an example of a kind of ceramic completely unknown to Europeans at the time. That was porcelain. He had […]
FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) increased from 826.65 to 859.68 (+3.99%) compared with last month’s update. Currently the Singapore REIT index is still trading with a range between 816 and 874. Yield spread (reference to ten-year Singapore government bond of 1.391%) continues to tighten from 4.289% to 4.08%. However, the risk […]
A senior official in the Indian government recently revealed to Reuters that the government would soon propose a law banning the trade and possession of cryptocurrencies. India has quickly become a global cryptocurrency hub, with 8 million investors holding an estimated US$1.4bn in crypto assets. The legislation, which intends to pave the way for an […]
An event in 1989 shook the world and radically changed how critical institutions operated. No, I’m not talking about the fall of communism and the following disintegration of the Soviet bloc, but of an obscure change of public policy in a land far, far away. While the rest of the world intently looked at the […]
Although the covid pandemic has had a major impact on the Pacific Rim office markets, Real Capital Analytics reports show that considerable regional real estate investment attention has focused on the traditional office sector in recent years. Within a Pacific Rim office REIT-based portfolio, Australia has played a more prominent role than Japan, the US […]
In this very special series of exclusive articles for the Property Chronicle, Australian property legend Norman Harker reflects on his extraordinary 50-year life in real estate. He will pull no punches partly because, as he freely admits, Norman has a limited life expectancy of five years from December 2018 due to a diagnosed terminal blood […]
“A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn’t have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.” Reading through a recent Economist article discussing the runaway success of the Chinese high-speed rail network, I recalled this quote attributed to Russell Baker, the Pulitzer Prize winning New […]
The prevailing build-to-rent (BTR) model has been seen in various jurisdictions across the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia and Singapore in recent years. This unique format has been modelled as ‘multi-family real estate investment trusts (REITs)’ or ‘apartment REITs’, as one of the sub-classes of residential REITs in the US. Within a Pacific Rim BTR-based […]
FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) decreased from 877.59 to 826.65 (-5.80%) compared with last month’s update. Currently the Singapore REIT index is moving sideways after a false breakout at resistance around 874. Yield spread (reference to ten-year Singapore government bond of 1.391%) tightened from 4.449% to 4.289%. However, the risk […]
