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As global capital markets become more selective, insight, access and execution are critical to achieving stronger returns. Cushman & Wakefield advises our clients globally as markets recalibrate, helping them identify value, deploy capital with confidence and navigate complexity across cycles.
Asia Pacific continues to offer depth, diversity and long-term opportunity as pricing stabilises, liquidity improves and capital re-enters the market selectively. With deep local market expertise and a truly global capital platform, we connect assets with the right sources of capital and deliver outcomes that are resilient, repeatable and aligned with client objectives.
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APAC Living Investor Survey 2026
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Asia Pacific Data Centre Investment Landscape
Equity, Debt and Structured Finance
Capital Compass
Living’s Income Era: Where Returns Come From Next
For two decades, Living benefited from falling rates and yield compression. That tailwind can no longer be relied upon. Investor appetite remains strong in both regions, but the return now depends on income, and reaching that income is harder. In this issue, we examine what that means for allocations in Europe and Asia Pacific.
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APAC Living ambitions face a higher cost of capital
APAC investors plan to deploy an estimated US$33.2 billion into Living, but rising rates are testing pricing and development feasibility. With few institutional portfolios available outside Japan, access to income-producing assets increasingly depends on development and local partnerships.
Insights • Professional Services
Five signals we're watching for Living
Five economic signals will shape Living’s next phase: inflation, employment and wages, construction costs, government policy, and demographics and migration. Read how they interact through one equation, income growth minus cost growth valued at the prevailing cost of capital, and why the markets to back are those where the signals align.
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APAC Living Investor Survey: Spotlight on Australia
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Michael Carson and his perspective on fuel, geopolitics, and real estate
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Integrated Facilities Management as a Value Driver in Logistics & Industrial
Insights • Investment / Capital Markets
From Cost Certainty to Acquisition Readiness
Mitigating Risks via Alternative Investments
Alternative real estate is gaining momentum as investors seek resilience, with Catherine Chen, Head of Capital Markets Research for APAC, highlighting growing capital flows into student housing, senior living, life sciences, and other emerging sectors.
Catherine Chen • 26/03/2026
Appetite to Allocation: What’s Driving the Next Phase of APAC Living Investment
Earlier this month, during PERE week, we hosted our APAC Living Sector Leaders Dinner, bringing together senior clients and colleagues from across the globe to focus on one of real estate’s fastest growing and most strategically important sectors.
Josh Rose-Nokes • 26/03/2026
Life Sciences Update for Investors – Q1 2026
As life sciences capital returns, APAC investors are becoming more selective. This update examines where conviction is re‑emerging, how the Chinese Mainland’s role is evolving, and what precision investing means for real assets and platforms in 2026.
Shaun Brodie • 26/03/2026
Introducing Krishnalal PV and our latest Sustainability How-to guide
This Team Spotlight introduces Krishnalal PV and Cushman & Wakefield’s sustainability services that support investors as they navigate these challenges across the investment lifecycle.
Krishnalal PV • 24/03/2026
Navigating 2026: A Strategic Investment Outlook
Catherine Chen • 28/01/2026
