China News Service, Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Yan Xiaohong) The "Asia Pacific Capital Tracking" report released by Jones Lang LaSalle on the 11th shows that in the first half of 2021, the investment in commercial real estate in Asia Pacific reached US$83.5 billion, an increase of 39% year-on-year , Which is only 6% lower than the level of the same period before the epidemic in 2019.

The scale of investment in logistics and industrial real estate, office buildings, and retail real estate has all increased, and the capital market in the Asia-Pacific region is continuing to recover.

　　China, Australia, and South Korea contributed 69% of the total investment in the Asia-Pacific region, while Japan was weakened by the epidemic.

The results of capital flow analysis in the second quarter of 2021 show that investment in office buildings, retail, logistics and industrial real estate accounted for 31%, 30%, and 30%, respectively.

　　Stuart Crow, CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Asia Pacific Investment Department, said that with investors’ increased confidence in the market’s prospects, real estate investment in the Asia Pacific region has rebounded significantly, prompting a significant year-on-year growth in investment in the first half of the year.

It is expected that investment activities in the second half of 2021 will be more active. Investors will turn their attention to transaction portfolio and sale and leaseback, and strengthen diversified investments in logistics and industrial real estate, life sciences, and long-term rental apartments.

　　It is worth mentioning that the performance of China's real estate investment market is particularly eye-catching. The total transaction volume in the second quarter reached 97.4 billion yuan, an increase of 123% year-on-year, and the third highest quarterly transaction volume in history (the first and second highest were respectively the highest in 2019). The first quarter and the fourth quarter of 2016).

　　Pang Shudong, head of the Investment and Capital Markets Department of Jones Lang LaSalle China, said that although investment in office buildings and retail real estate is still the mainstream, accounting for more than half of the total transaction volume, it has also seen some investors withdraw from traditional businesses and move to Trends in alternative assets.

Long-term rental apartments are also an area of ​​focus for investors.

All signs of activity indicate that the recovery of the Chinese market has become a reality.

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