Stories

Summer Chen, Senior Associate Director, Valuation & Advisory Services, Greater China, discusses how the issue of addressing sustainability in data centres is not just a trend for the sector but an imperative as China commits to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

Kevin Imboden, Senior Global Research Manager specialising in Data Centre Insights, discusses how Jakarta, Mumbai, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur and Osaka, are growing secondary markets that are driving Asia Pacific’s potential as a key region for data centre growth across the next decade.

As Asia Pacific begins to show signs of recovery from COVID-19, led by a rebound originating from China, what is the current status of the commercial real estate market and where is it headed?

James Shepherd recently sat down with Capital Markets leaders Francis Li and Queeny So to discuss where investors are seeing opportunity for growth across the Greater Bay Area’s commercial real estate markets. 

As the world recovers from COVID-19 with a potential resurgence in infections due to variant strains, Facilities Management, like many other businesses, face an urgent need to transform internally to meet increasing challenges and adapting to changes in how the built environment is being utilized.

Although substantial questions remain about the future of the workplace, it is becoming increasingly clear that a focus on the office as the sole place where work is done is no longer applicable and that there is actually an ecosystem of workplaces.

Remarkable growth across the greater Asia-Pacific region has continued in recent months, as large corporations and government agencies alike push forward their moves to the cloud and continued IT transformation.

Private residential prices accelerated in Q1 2021, registering 3.3% qoq in Q1 2021 as compared to 2.1% in Q4 2020. 

As China benefits from being “first in and first out” of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly attractive to investors both locally and from around the globe.

As we celebrate Earth Day on 22 April 2021 with the theme ‘Restore our Earth’, let’s reflect on what it means to take care of our earth. 

Sectoral performance in real estate is always under the microscope, but it has never been so acutely examined and reported as it has in the past 12 months. As COVID-19 first spread across the Asia Pacific region and then the globe, bringing with it a global recession, investors and occupiers alike sought not only to limit their exposures but also identify opportunities for growth.

Despite cross-border market activity seeming calm on the surface, virtual engagement with outbound investors is frenzied with interest as high or higher than before COVID-19.