7 September 2016, Finland | Corporate Finance | News
The real estate market overrides the weak economic growth
The relative attractiveness of properties when compared to investment instruments is now perhaps higher than ever before. At the beginning of the autumn, this year's transaction volume was already EUR 5 billion, and we predict that the EUR 6 billion volume record of 2007 will be broken clearly.
Two long-term trends affect the real estate investment market and override the weak economic growth: an enormous increase in liquidity and dramatic urbanisation.
Together, these supertrends have created a situation with rapidly increasing demand for housing portfolios and only slowly increasing supply. Another consequence is the record-breaking increase in retail construction.
