Emerging trends in Real Estate® Asia Pacific 2021

Throughout 2020, the success of government efforts across the Asia Pacific to contain the spread of COVID-19 has helped limit its impact on local real estate markets. At the same time, however, there is a sense that asset values have been propped up by a combination of transient factors—government support programmes, bank forbearance policies, healthy corporate balance sheets—that are unlikely to last. As the tank runs dry, there is growing conviction among investors that a market correction is inevitable.