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Cologne's office leasing market achieved 206,000 m² in space volume during 2024, remaining near prior-year levels, with the vacancy rate rising 90 basis points to 3.8% and top rents declining 7% to €31.50/m² due to shortage of premium stock. The commercial investment market recorded €1.01 billion in transaction volume, up 62% year-over-year, driven primarily by two major acquisitions by the City of Cologne including the Rossio office building, with mixed-use properties representing the largest asset class at €385 million and public entities accounting for 65% of buyer volume.

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HVS Brokerage & Advisory announces the sale of the 59-key Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Hazelton/Bruceton Mills, located in Hazelton, West Virginia.

Five current infrastructure investment trends spanning energy security, AI and broadening investor access routes.

This is a market report published by Colliers on September 30, 2025, providing an investment market overview for Prague and the Czech Republic in the third quarter of 2025. The report covers capital markets activity and investment trends across the multifamily, office, and retail sectors in the Prague market.

This is a data figures report published by CBRE on June 30, 2025, presenting office sector metrics for Krakow, Poland in the second quarter of 2025.

This is a capital markets data report published by CBRE on March 31, 2026, presenting investment figures for Austria in the first quarter of 2026, with a focus on Vienna.

JLL's Q4 2025 analysis of Zurich's high street retail market reports that prime rents on Bahnhofstrasse increased 26% over five years to reach CHF 10,750 per square meter annually by end-2025, ranking third in Europe behind Paris and London, with vacancy rates held below 1% by strong brand demand. The report attributes continued retail sector strength to Zurich's top-ranking European purchasing power position.

The Geneva hotel market achieved higher room occupancy rates and RevPAR in 2025, while average room rates and the total number of hotel rooms declined; various hotels undertook renovations and international chains pursued expansion plans. City tourism continued to drive growth in Swiss tourism at an above-average rate compared to Alpine regions, with BAK Economics forecasting this trend to persist in coming years.

This is a market report published by Colliers in December 2025 covering the Finnish residential multifamily sector, with a focus on investment activity in 2025. The report covers Helsinki and broader Finland markets as part of its analysis.

This is a real estate market outlook and forecast report published by CBRE on December 31, 2025, covering the Finland real estate market with focus on capital markets activity. The report includes coverage of Helsinki and broader Finnish real estate sectors.

Irish investment spending reached approximately €699 million in Q3 2025, up from Q2 and 18% stronger than the prior twelve months, with the living sector comprising €260 million (led by Ardstone's acquisitions of Spencer Place and Birchwood Court) and the office sector accounting for €247 million across 12 transactions. Economic indicators for 2025 forecast GDP growth of 10.8% and personal consumption of 2.9%, while the sector breakdown shows residential representing 37% of investment volumes, office 35%, retail 14%, and industrial 13%.

This is a market report published by Colliers in December 2025 covering the real estate market in the Aix-Marseille region of France. The report addresses capital markets activity in this European geography.

This is a global outlook and forecast report on data center trends published by CBRE in June 2026.

Berlin's office market recorded 362,000 sqm of take-up in the first three quarters of 2025, approximately 14% lower than the prior year, though demand in smaller segments up to 5,000 sqm reached 320,000 sqm, the highest level since 2019. Prime rents increased 2% in Q3 and 4% year-on-year to €47/sqm, with city zones accounting for 60% of take-up and holding 71% of under-construction space.
JLL's analysis examines Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) potential in Vietnam's major urban centres of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, identifying fundamental elements including higher density cores, growing public transportation networks, and land availability along transit corridors. The document reports that properties in TOD catchment areas along HCMC's Metro Line No. 1 achieved 34% price growth over five years and emphasizes that successful TOD requires integrated coordination among government, developers, operators, and communities, with strategic focus on experiential connectivity rather than physical proximity to stations.

Latin America's hotel construction pipeline contained 755 projects and 113,663 rooms in Q1 2026, representing a 6% year-over-year increase in projects and 1% increase in rooms, with early planning projects rising 12% year-over-year. Mexico, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic accounted for 61% of pipeline projects, and Lodging Econometrics forecast 104 new hotel openings (17,934 rooms) for 2026 and 115 new hotels (15,661 rooms) for 2027.

Lodging Econometrics' Q1 2026 U.S. Construction Pipeline Trend Report shows that Dallas leads all U.S. markets with 184 projects and 22,861 rooms in its hotel pipeline, followed by Atlanta, Phoenix, Nashville, and Austin, while Phoenix recorded year-over-year gains of 19% in projects and 11% in rooms under construction. The report details construction activity across pipeline stages, with Phoenix forecasted to top new hotel openings in 2026 with 27 hotels and 3,640 rooms, and Dallas expected to lead in 2027 with 27 new hotels and 2,484 rooms.
Melbourne's CBD office vacancy stood at 19.7% as of Q1 2026, but JLL analysis distinguishes between frictional, entrenched, and structural vacancy, identifying approximately 4.0% of secondary stock as structurally vacant and 6.0% of prime stock as entrenched vacant, suggesting only 9.7% of the headline figure represents genuinely competitive space. The research attributes elevated vacancy primarily to supply-driven factors, with 675,000 square meters of new office space completed between Q1 2020 and Q1 2026 (12.5% of total stock), and identifies building obsolescence as a key driver, with older assets from the 1980s or earlier representing 58.4% of secondary stock and containing 120,500 square meters of structural vacancy concentrated in the Western Core precinct.
At the 2026 ULI Europe Conference in Berlin, speakers argued that Europe's future competitiveness will depend less on matching the scale of the United States or China and more on leveraging its strengths in governance, resilience, capital formation, and its network of highly livable cities.
Bangkok's property market faces emerging distress in completed, occupied buildings showing persistent vacancy and deferred maintenance, concentrated in 1990s office stock, early-2000s retail formats, and aging condominiums. The market differs from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in that buildings are finished and titled, but Thailand's outdated legislative framework lacks mechanisms for repurposing or collective redevelopment, unlike Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea, which enable streamlined asset repositioning through supermajority sales or regulatory flexibility.
A JLL research article examines education-driven structural demand for Hong Kong residential property from mainland Chinese families, distinguishing this sustained factor from cyclical investment demand and attributing it to Hong Kong's more accessible university system compared to mainland China's highly competitive Gaokao examination. The article projects that purpose-built student accommodation demand will create a supply gap widening from 76,000 beds in 2025/26 to 147,000 beds by 2029/30, and notes that Top Talent Pass Scheme households purchasing property increased from 5% at admission to 13% at renewal, representing an estimated 2,000–3,000 unit purchases annually.

Singapore shophouses combine heritage preservation with operational flexibility, functioning as urban infrastructure that enables street-level activation through their physical design of narrow frontages, shallow depths, and covered walkways that sustain pedestrian engagement in districts like Joo Chiat Road and Duxton Hill. Since the 2022 peak, the shophouse market has shifted to reward selectivity over momentum, with capital flowing to assets where location strength and tenant composition align, while examples such as 21 Carpenter, The Working Capitol, and Temasek Shophouse demonstrate how conserved shophouses adapt to modern uses including hospitality, coworking, and social-impact programming, offering investors diversification and reduced single-user exposure.
While LEED has dominated US green building certification for over two decades, alternative certifications are rapidly gaining adoption for specific ESG priorities: Fitwel for health and wellness at lower cost, ILFI Zero Carbon for verified net-zero operations, RELi for climate resilience, and BREEAM or ARC for portfolio-level tracking. Market leaders now employ multiple certifications simultaneously rather than relying on LEED alone, reflecting a shift from static design-based ratings toward dynamic operational certifications that deliver measurable ESG results.

South Korea's co-living market has grown substantially since 2023 due to shifting housing preferences among younger demographics and high price-to-income ratios, attracting major foreign investors including GIC, KKR, Morgan Stanley, CPPIB, Hines, Invesco, M&G Real Estate, and TPG Angelo Gordon, with notable deals including ICG's approximately KRW 300 billion co-living fund partnership with Homes Company. Recent regulatory measures introduced in late 2025 restricting tax exemptions and loan-to-value limits to 0% in regulated areas have created policy uncertainty and wait-and-see sentiment among foreign investors, though sector fundamentals are expected to remain strong due to growing long-term overseas visitors and demographic shifts toward single-person households.
Malaysia's residential market shifted toward premium assets in 2025, with transaction value reaching MYR 108 billion despite moderated volumes, particularly pronounced in Kuala Lumpur's prime properties segment. JLL's analysis segments Kuala Lumpur's submarkets by investment profile—KLCC and Bukit Bintang for growth, Bangsar for stable rental yields, and Damansara Heights and Mont Kiara for defensive or balanced positioning—while noting that unsold inventory declined over 66% from its 2021 peak, signaling market entry into a more sustainable equilibrium.
Bangkok's parking costs typically represent 15–25% of total construction costs in developments, and the city's mandatory parking ratios exceed those of Singapore fivefold and Seoul nearly threefold for comparable commercial projects, despite empirical evidence that 90% of condominiums in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region already exceed legal minimums. Bangkok's 2027 comprehensive plan will allow developers to reduce parking requirements by up to 25% for projects near designated rail stations and prioritizes transit-oriented development, but market demand—evidenced by luxury condominiums providing 110% of required parking—may hinder adoption as consumers remain deeply attached to abundant parking provision.

Recent CRE capital flows have declined significantly due to heightened interest rates, market uncertainty fueled by trade tariffs, and US governance challenges. What does this mean for the dynamics of capital flows into the US? The post Clarifying Vision: Exploring the Dynamics of Slowing Capital Flows appeared…

There has been a longstanding perception that an investment in affordable housing could not generate alpha, but new economic forces are turning a social challenge into a compelling institutional opportunity. The post Beyond Motivation: Why Invest in US Affordable Housing? And Why Now? appeared first on AFIRE .

Amid an extended period of uncertainty, mission-critical triple-net lease (NNN) investing has emerged as a compelling strategy, offering predictable income, contractual rent escalations, and insulation from expense inflation. The post Inflation Fighters: The Case for Mission-Critical NNN appeared first on AFIRE .

There’s a quiet revolution underway in on-site solar and batteries. What is it and why should commercial real estate investors should pay attention? The post Solar Wave: Community Solar is set to Transform Lease Income appeared first on AFIRE .

How can investors gain a competitive edge when seeking deals in the hospitality sector? Explore the topic with the co-founder and managing partner of AWH Partners, Russ Flicker, about how his $2 billion hospitality platform leverages proprietary data and AI to make smarter decisions. The post AFIRE Podcast 2026.21:…

What began as a municipal policy tool for energy upgrades has matured into an institutional credit product embedded directly in the capital stack. The post How C-PACE (and Stretch PACE) are Rewiring Global Real Estate Finance for the Energy Transition appeared first on AFIRE .

Berkshire Residential Investments weighs the pros and cons of private apartment equity and private debt and asks - why not both? The post Private Apartment Equity or Private Debt: Comparing Investment Performance of the Two Quadrants appeared first on AFIRE .

Put and Call options on REITs provide forward-looking risk indicators that incorporate both historical property sector trends and views on the outlook. The post REIT Puts and Calls: Public Market Signals for Private Real Estate Investors appeared first on AFIRE .

Scott Crowe of RXR talks about the "less obvious bull market" currently unfolding in one of the most overlooked sectors: New York City office. The post NYC Office Recovery: Repricing Physical Infrastructure in the Age of AI appeared first on AFIRE .

Donal Warde, Richard Cadena and Wenpeng Ding discuss how supply, inventory, and long-term demand drivers are elevating the NYC rental market. The post The Complexity Premium: Leveraging the Alpha Opportunity in Regulated Gateway Cities appeared first on AFIRE .

How can investors gain a competitive edge when seeking deals in the hospitality sector? Explore the topic with the co-founder and managing partner of AWH Partners, Russ Flicker, about how his $2 billion hospitality platform leverages proprietary data and AI to make smarter decisions. The post AFIRE Podcast 2026.20:…

Stewart Rubin and Marshall Swett of New York Life Real Estate Investors explores how tariffs they could signal a fundamental departure from the longstanding US commitments. The post Trade Winds Redrawn: US Tariffs and Commercial Real Estate appeared first on AFIRE .

RCLCO Fund Advisors suggests that the supply response taking shape for data centers calls for more measured analysis. The post The Data Center Pipeline: Is it a Boom, or a Bubble? appeared first on AFIRE .

What happens when uncertainty shakes the global economy, and investors start questioning where to put their money? The post AFIRE Podcast 2026.19: 2026 Economic Outlook with Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi appeared first on AFIRE .

Despite continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical rebalancing, the latest AFIRE International Investor Survey underscores continued confidence in US real estate . . . with some important qualifications. The post The Case for US Real Estate in 2026 appeared first on AFIRE .

SUMMARY The property market entered 2026 with momentum building, but... Read more The post Geopolitical Shocks Delay Recovery but There Are Pockets of Resilience appeared first on Montagu Evans .

Hospitality News for the Asia Pacific Region

Hospitality News for the Asia Pacific Region

Hospitality News for the Asia Pacific Region
HVS Brokerage & Advisory announces the sale of the 59-key Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Hazelton/Bruceton Mills, located in Hazelton, West Virginia.

Hospitality News for the Asia Pacific Region

Hospitality News for the Asia Pacific Region
HVS Brokerage & Advisory announces the sale of the 90-key Staybridge Suites Houston - Humble Beltway 8 East, located in Humble, Texas.

Hospitality News for the Asia Pacific Region

Retiree discretionary spending is growing, driven by increased leisure demand and wealth transfer, shaping the future of consumer real estate.

The Middle East hotel construction pipeline reached a record 717 projects representing 177,110 rooms in Q1 2026, showing 13% growth in projects and 12% growth in rooms year-over-year despite regional geopolitical tensions. Saudi Arabia led with 385 projects (105,598 rooms), followed by Egypt with 157 projects (33,446 rooms), and the upscale chain scale segment posted the strongest growth at 15% by projects and 18% by rooms year-over-year.

Europe's hotel construction pipeline reached 1,731 projects comprising 255,354 rooms at Q1 2026, representing a 3% year-over-year increase, with the early planning stage hitting a record-high 604 projects and 86,128 rooms. The United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany, France, and Portugal account for 46% of projects in the region's pipeline, and Europe is forecast to see 319 new hotels with 44,156 rooms open by the end of 2026.

Europe's hotel construction pipeline stood at 1,731 projects comprising 255,354 rooms at the close of Q1 2026, representing a 3% year-over-year increase, with early planning stage projects reaching a record high of 604 projects/86,128 rooms. The report forecasts 319 new hotels with 44,156 rooms to open across Europe by year-end 2026, with the United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany, France, and Portugal accounting for 46% of the region's pipeline projects.

The Asia Pacific excluding China hotel construction pipeline reached 2,387 projects and 442,973 rooms at Q1 2026, representing a 15% increase in projects and 9% increase in rooms year-over-year, with higher-end properties dominating and India leading the region at 940 projects. India, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand comprise the top five countries by pipeline size, while Bangkok ranks as the most active city with 68 projects, and conversions reached record highs of 353 projects with an 82% year-over-year increase.

At the close of Q1 2026, the Asia Pacific hotel construction pipeline (excluding China) reached a record 2,387 projects and 442,973 rooms, up 15% by project count and 9% by rooms year-over-year, with luxury, upscale, and upper upscale segments dominating and India leading the region with 940 projects and 124,011 rooms. China's separate pipeline totaled 3,602 projects and 640,328 rooms at Q1 2026, with upper midscale and upscale chain scales accounting for two-thirds of the pipeline and projects under construction representing 71% of the total, while conversions reached record highs and forecasts project 1,111 hotels opening by year-end 2026.

According to Lodging Econometrics' Q1 2026 China Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report, China's hotel construction pipeline totaled 3,602 projects and 640,328 rooms, with projects under construction dominating at 2,572 projects and 451,156 rooms representing 71% of total projects and 70% of total rooms. The upper midscale chain scale leads the pipeline with 1,249 projects and 183,534 rooms, followed by the upscale chain scale with 1,087 projects and 223,180 rooms, while Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Xi'an account for the majority of pipeline activity.

Latin America's hotel construction pipeline comprises 755 projects and 113,663 rooms as of Q1 2026, representing a 6% year-over-year increase in projects and 1% increase in rooms, with early planning projects up 12% by project count and 4% by room count. Mexico leads the region with 247 projects, followed by Brazil with 132 projects and the Dominican Republic with 84 projects, together accounting for 61% of the pipeline's total projects and 64% of rooms.

Lodging Econometrics' Q1 2026 report documents Latin America's hotel construction pipeline at 755 projects comprising 113,663 rooms, representing a 6% year-over-year project increase and 1% room increase, with Mexico leading at 247 projects/36,646 rooms followed by Brazil and the Dominican Republic. The report forecasts 104 new hotels with 17,934 rooms to open in 2026 and 115 new hotels with 15,661 rooms in 2027, while noting that early planning stage projects increased 12% by project count and 4% by rooms year-over-year.