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            APAC LOGISTICS:                                                                                                            GREATER CHINA: MAINLAND                               While  the  market  has  already  been

                                                                                                                                                                                             in the upcycle for close to a decade
                                                                                                                                       SEES CONTINUED STRONG
                                                                                                                                                                                             and  rental  growth  is  plateauing,
                                                                                                                                       DEMAND FOR PLATFORM DEALS
            AN OVERVIEW                                                                                                                With  limited  availability  of  stabilised           some  owners  still  anticipate  short-
                                                                                                                                                                                             to  medium-term  yield  compression.
                                                                                                                                       or income generating assets available
                                                                                                                                       for  sale,  mainland  China  saw  a  wave
                                                                                                                                       of platform level investment over the                 JAPAN: NEW PLAYERS ENTER

            Since the onset of the  global                         The strong occupier market has piqued                               course  of  2021.  Many  institutional                DEVELOPMENT MARKET

            pandemic,  Asia  Pacific  logistics  has               investor interest in logistics  assets,                             buyers  are  eyeing  opportunities  in                Transaction  volume  in  Japan’s  logis-
            performed  in good  health, owing to                   with  respondents  to  CBRE’s  2022                                 development  platforms,  which  offer                 tics  sector  increased  by 78%  y-o-y
            increased  e-commerce penetration,                     Asia Pacific Investor Intentions survey                             higher  returns  than  stabilised  plat-              to JPY 428.0 billion in Q4 2021, the

            the  development of Omni channel                       naming  logistics  the  most  popular                               forms. Yields for stabilised platforms                largest  figure  for  the  October-De-

            retail, and a push to improve supply                   sector for the second year in a row.                                are now close to those for core retail                cember quarter since surveys began
            chain resilience, all of which have trans-                                                                                 and have narrowed further with those                  in 2005, making it the second largest
            lated into significant leasing demand.                                                                                     for core office properties. Property                  sector in terms of investment behind

                                                                                                                                       funds have also been a major source                   offices. While  purchasing in recent
            INVESTMENT FLOW
                                                                                                                                       of  investment,  with  around  half  of               quarters has  been  dominated  by
                                                                                                                                       all  fund-raising  concluded  in 2021                 J-REITs, new players including over-
                                                                                                                                       raised  by  logistics-focused  funds.                 seas  investors have been  entering
                                                                                                                                       H
                                                                                                                                       Elsewhere in Greater  China, logis-                   the  market  in greater  numbers.
                                                                                                                                       tics  deals  accounted for  just under                Major  developers have historically

                                                                                                                                       40%  of  investment  volume  in  Hong                 dominated  logistics  development

                                                                                                                                       Kong  SAR in 2021.  Most transac-                     in Japan,  with  their  strategy being
                                                                                                                                       tions  have  involved  redevelopment                  to  construct warehouses  and  then
                                                                                                                                       and conversion projects, particularly                 transfer them  to J-REITs, meaning

                                                                                                                                       in the data centre, self-storage, and                 that deals  between  third  parties
                                                                                                                                       cold  storage  sub-segments, with                     have been  few and  far between.

                                                                                                                                       the lack of stock for sale continuing
                                                                                                                                       to  impede  any  platform  deals.                     More  recently,  investors  and  devel-
                                                                                                                                                                                             opers  have  begun  to  pursue  logis-
                                                                                                                                       With  so  much  capital  deployed  into               tics  development.  As  it  remains

                                                                                                                                       the  sector,  yields  have  been  driven              challenging to obtain land for devel-
                                                                                                                                       down significantly in recent years                    opment,  any plots  or  properties

            Source: 2022 Asia Pacific Investor Intentions Survey, CBRE Research, January 2022                                          and  are  now  converging  with  those                that are transacted  between  third
                                                                                                                                       for  the  office  and  retail  sectors.               parties  typically  fetch  high  prices.


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