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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

Oxenwood Real Estate co-founders Jeremy Bishop and Stewart Little explain why they are tracking tenant demand into urban logistics and continental European markets

Assets in densely populated and infill locations should provide the most resilient value and vigorous growth for US logistics investors, say Crow Holdings’ Ben Doherty and Ken Valach

Chua Tiow Chye, deputy group CEO of Mapletree Investments, explains why logistics real estate will continue to be a large part of the $42bn real estate company’s growth as it expands globally

With elective acquisition and intensive asset management, capital providers can make attractive returns in German logistics – even amid tight land supply and waning cap rate compression, argues GARBE Industrial Real Estate’s CEO Christopher Garbe

Mark Cartlich CBRE’s senior director, industrial and logistics, EMEA capital markets, casts an eye over the region’s recovery.

Distribution hubs in Europe are getting larger, more sophisticated and costlier, presenting an evolving set of challenges for capital providers and developers, say LCP’s James Markby and Kristof Verstraeten, and Invesco’s Tom Emson.

Johnny Horgan, the managing director of BidX1, a property trading platform, explains how the rise of a digital marketplace is a value-add to investors and managers.