Guest Writer

François Trausch, CEO of Allianz Real Estate, reflects on his firm’s successes in Asia-Pacific and North America.

Banks are playing it safe in CRE and reaping rewards, says Venn Partners managing partner Paul House.

Ming Mei, GLP chief executive, explains why 2019 was a transformative year for the firm.

As investors shift their focus from retail to industrial, the sector’s deal activity for 2019 looks likely to exceed $160bn – a record level, observes Real Capital Analytics’ Jim Costello.

Annualized national rent growth in 2019 reached its second-strongest showing in sector history, writes Peter Kroner of JLL.

As supply chains adapt to new realities, occupiers will focus more on the life cycle of a facility, says Matthew Wright, DHL’s vice-president of development.

Finding value in logistics is not just about large ‘big box’ assets but increasingly urban and ‘last-mile’ facilities, says Kari Pitkin, Allianz Real Estate’s head of business development.

As industrial increasingly becomes a preferred property class, investors are paying ever-higher prices. But that may limit the potential for continued outperformance, explains Realterm’s director of research, Nathan Kane

Transformation of the region’s logistics infrastructure to support online shopping habits still has a long way to go, creating new development opportunities in established markets, says Panattoni Europe’s Robert Dobrzycki

So compelling is the growth story in Asia-Pacific logistics that developers are hard- pressed to create assets to meet investor appetite, say ESR co-founders Jeffrey Shen and Stuart Gibson